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Mini IPL in september

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Published : Jun 25, 2016, 1:57 am IST
Updated : Jun 25, 2016, 1:57 am IST

Board president Anurag Thakur (centre) and secretary Ajay Shirke at the BCCI Conclave in Dharamsala on Friday. (Photo: BCCI)

Board president Anurag Thakur (centre) and secretary Ajay Shirke at the BCCI Conclave in Dharamsala on Friday. (Photo: BCCI)

The BCCI is set to introduce a new Twenty20 event, to be branded as mini IPL, outside India in September.

“In the month of September, the BCCI is willing to host a mini IPL or IPL overseas with all the eight teams participating,” BCCI president Anurag Thakur said at the conclusion of the Board’s Working Commi-ttee meeting here.

“It will be a shorter format, not home and away matches but a lesser number of matches. In a two-week window we should be able to complete it,” he said.

The BCCI’s move was on the cards with the scrapping of the Champions League T20 last year.

The details of the shortened version of IPL are yet to be chalked out and possible venues are USA and the UAE, which has already hosted part of the IPL in 2014.

The full-fledged IPL lasts about for almost two months.

The ninth edition of the tournament was held in India from April 9 to May 29. Minutes after Thakur’s statement, the BCCI issued a release saying that “the BCCI will explore the option of hosting Mini IPL overseas in September”.

Going overseas is not new to the IPL as the entire 2009 edition was held in South Africa due to the general election in India.

Anil Kumble’s appointment as the head coach of the Indian team was also approved at the meeting. Thakur said that with the Duleep Trophy — India’s first-class zonal competition — scheduled for the end of September, the BCCI only had a restricted window available for the mini IPL.