Srinagar, May 6: BCCI President and former Indian cricket team skipper Sourav Ganguly has said that he is not sure how COVID-19 breached Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 bio bubble but may be traveling between cities could have caused the breach.
Ganguly said this while speaking to the Telegraph.
“I really don’t know what led to this situation inside the biosecurity bubble. We will have to do a post-mortem and look into the reasons behind this,” Ganguly was quoted by ESPNCricinfo.com saying to Indian Newspaper, two days after IPL 2021 was indefinitely postponed .
“Last year [IPL 2020] in the UAE, everything was restricted to three venues and within a limited area. There was no air travel involved. Here we had six different venues,” he said.
“You also have to look at the situation around the country. The way the number of people are getting affected on a daily basis is total madness. No one knows what is going to happen tomorrow. Things have gone out of control for everyone.”
About new window for finishing remaining matches of the tournament he said, “We have to speak to other boards and see if a window can be made available before the T20 World Cup. Lot of things are involved and we will slowly start working on them.”
“There has got to be a lot of shuffling. Only a day has passed since we suspended the IPL”.
“If we fail to complete the IPL, the loss will be close to INR 2500 crore (USD 340 million approx). That is going by early estimates.”