BCCI shifts CSK’s IPL home games to Pune

BCCI shifts CSK’s IPL home games to Pune

Jaipur, April 11 All the remaining Indian Premier League (IPL) matches of Cheni Super Kings will be shifted out of Cheni to Pune in the wake of Tuesday’s violence over the Cauvery waters dispute.

“CSK will be asked to move their home matches to Pune as the Cheni police has expressed their ibility to to provide adequate security for the remaining matches,” IPL Chairman Rajeev Shukla told reporters here on Wednesday.

Earlier, talking to IANS on phone, Cheni Super Kings (CSK) Chief Executive Officer K.S. Viswathan said: “We talked to the Cheni’s Commissioner of Police over the issue. He suggested we shift the matches as the situation is volatile in the city.”

“We have put the ball in BCCI’s court and the board will now take a call on the issue,” he added.

Various Tamil groups had demanded that the authorities cancel all IPL matches in Cheni until the Cauvery Magement Board (CMB) and Cauvery Water Regulatory Committee (CWRC) as mandated by the Supreme Court are set up the Central government. (IANS)

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