Due to Coronavirus IPL may get cancelled or no foreign player will be available for this year till April 15 due to visa restriction imposed by the government. A closed-door IPL seems like a real possibility now but even a postponement cannot be ruled out given that 60-odd overseas recruits won’t be available to ply their trade, at least in the initial stages of the event starting March 29 in Mumbai.
‘The foreign players who play in the IPL come under the Business Visa category. As per the government’s directive, they can’t come till April 15,’ a BCCI source told PTI on conditions of anonymity. The fate of the IPL itself will be decided on March 14 at the event’s Governing Council meeting in Mumbai.
The government issued a fresh advisory with a ban on all existing foreign visas, except a few categories like diplomatic and employment, till April 15 in the wake of new positive cases of a novel coronavirus in the country. India has reported 60 positive cases in the outbreak which has led to over 4,000 deaths globally.
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