The fifth edition of the Tamil Nadu Premier League has been postponed for the second time due to the Covid-19 pandemic, with the state’s governing body now hoping to host the T20 event either in November this year or March next year, reported PTI.
The franchised-based T20 tournament, which was initially scheduled to run from June 10 to July 12, was put off by the Tamil Nadu Cricket Association in May as the number of coronavirus cases rose in the state.
The TNCA was looking to conduct the event between July-end and September but with the health crisis in the state still not under control, it will not be in a position to host the tournament.
“The TNCA was looking at a window between end July/August to end September as a possible window for playing the 5th edition of the TNPL tournament. However, due to the ongoing Covid related issue in the State of Tamil Nadu, TNCA will not be in a position to host the tournament in this window,” TNCA Honorary Secretary RS Ramasaamy said in a press release.
“We will explore possibilities of playing the 5th edition of the tournament in an alternate window i.e either in November 2020 or in March 2021.”
Top players of the state like R Ashwin, Dinesh Karthik, Vijay Shankar and M Vijay participate in TNPL, which has also seen the emergence of youngsters like Varun Chakravarthy, T Natarajan and R Sai Kishore who have gone on to be picked by IPL teams.
Tamil Nadu has so far recorded over 2.5 lakh coronavirus cases and more than 4,000 fatalities. On Saturday, the state health announced that 5,879 new cases and 99 deaths were recorded in the last 24 hours.
(With PTI inputs)
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