{"id":27405,"date":"2020-06-13T07:13:49","date_gmt":"2020-06-13T01:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/india-calls-off-tour-of-sri-lanka-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2020-06-13T07:13:49","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T01:43:49","slug":"india-calls-off-tour-of-sri-lanka-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27405","title":{"rendered":"India calls off tour of Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Both engagements postponed due to the COVID-19 threat<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, scheduled for June-July and August respectively, have been called off by the BCCI \u201cowing to the current threat of COVID-19\u201d, secretary Jay Shah said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both engagements \u2014 three ODIs and three T20Is in Sri Lanka and three ODIs in Zimbabwe \u2014 were a part of the Future Tours Programme (FTP), which is likely to be revised when the International Cricket Council\u2019s Board meets next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Camp can wait<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Although it is looking to stage the suspended Indian Premier League later this year, the BCCI would not rush cricketers into a preparatory camp after the hiatus, Shah stressed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe BCCI will conduct a camp for its contracted players only when it is completely safe to train outdoors,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">No rush<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe BCCI is determined to take steps towards the resumption of international and domestic cricket, but it will not rush into any decision that will jeopardise the efforts put in by the Central and State governments and several other agencies in containing the spread of the coronavirus.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cricketers and support staff have been vocal about requiring a six-week camp to get back into shape after being forced indoors since mid-March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday, IPL governing council chairman Brijesh Patel told&nbsp;<em>The Hindu<\/em>&nbsp;that a September-October window for the IPL is being considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>With inputs from <\/em><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/cricket\/india-calls-off-tour-of-zimbabwe\/article31816005.ece\">The Hindu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both engagements postponed due to the COVID-19 threat India\u2019s tours of Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe, scheduled for June-July and August respectively, have been called off by the BCCI \u201cowing to the current threat of COVID-19\u201d, secretary Jay Shah said in a statement on Friday. Both engagements \u2014 three ODIs and three T20Is in Sri Lanka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}