Wary of PILs, team owners open to shifting IPL outside India

The mood among IPL team owners and top managers is changing rapidly with many of them willing submitted to support the T20 league overseas for the 2017 season in the wake of many PILs shift to the functioning in the last weeks of the league will.

It looks like everyone wants to move out on IPL, find questions about the league. These things impact business, "said the CEO of one of the franchise." What does the IPL to do with water issues in different states? It is to put the responsibility of the state government water available, "he pointed out.

Another team owner said it will be sad when the league is moving overseas, as it means to the fans of the team, to deprive of the games in their home towns. "It's like the IPL twist PILs to generate," he said. None of the team owners and CEOs ET spoke wanted to come on record, as there was no formal announcement by the IPL management or the Indian cricket board.

These reactions were needed by some events that have taken place recently. Earlier, the Bombay High Court asked this month to all IPL move the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) 30 planned from the state of Maharashtra after April games, while a PIL by NGO Loksatta hear movement.
The IPL had said that 60,000 liters of water is used per day to keep the soil and the pitch of the three stages in Maharashtra - Mumbai, Pune and Nagpur - at a time when many parts of the state are drought conditions over. After the IPL matches decided to Jaipur and Visakhapatnam move, another PIL in Rajasthan was tabled. The Rajasthan High Court in question then the reasons behind IPL shift to Jaipur games that was even drought over.

Last week, Secretary of BCCI and BJP MP Anurag Thakur said BCCI a punching bag of style and the recent rise in public interest litigations again the IPL leads to losses has become.

He said the Governing Council IPL will soon meet at the venue for IPL next season to decide. "The IPL Governing Council is looking at the venues in India and abroad. We have to check the availability of the venues and the prevailing conditions," he said.
Chairman Rajeev Shukla said IPL has emerged as a global athletic brand that some people are trying to destroy - every year of the new controversy obviously around the tournament. "It is difficult to build a brand, but easy to destroy it. If these kinds of things continue to happen, we could have IPL to move the country out of."