IPL Mutual Pool Discussion.

[Haunebu]

Is it viable to schedule the IPL in these rural locations?

I don't think it is viable to schedule the IPL anywhere at this point of time. This would directly endanger the lives of  the cricketers as well as the staff etc.

A single woman in South Korea transmitted COVID-19 to 5000+ people in an instant. That is the raw power of this virus. If the Indians make a similar mistake, just imagine how many people could get affected. Not worth the risk in my opinion.

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[JohnBitCo]

According to the directives from the Home Ministry, India have been divided in to three zones. After the current lockdown is complete, indications are that the restrictions will be completely lifted in the green zone (which include districts such as Trivandrum, Shimoga, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Bathinda, Nagaon.etc). Is it viable to schedule the IPL in these rural locations?

Do India have cricket stadiums of international standards in these rural areas which you mentioned ?  I never heard any international match which took place in those venues in India.

[FIFA worldcup]

I saw that this year IPL has been completely cancelled officially by BCCI while surfing on my mobile.Did anyone see that from official twitter accounts?

According to my information it's suspended, not cancelled. Plz scroll up, I have posted updates. They didn't posted anything on twitter but it's official announcement.

The news from the centre is With India in lockdown, IPL 2020 suspended till further notice

This was expected and this is now official.

[Indymoney]

According to the directives from the Home Ministry, India have been divided in to three zones. After the current lockdown is complete, indications are that the restrictions will be completely lifted in the green zone (which include districts such as Trivandrum, Shimoga, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Bathinda, Nagaon.etc). Is it viable to schedule the IPL in these rural locations?

Do India have cricket stadiums of international standards in these rural areas which you mentioned ?  I never heard any international match which took place in those venues in India.

I don't think BCCI have any international stadium in these rurl locations and its not possible for them to host all IPL here clearly its suspended and now wait for next official announcement from BCCI after PM orders in first week of May.

[akhjob]

According to the directives from the Home Ministry, India have been divided in to three zones. After the current lockdown is complete, indications are that the restrictions will be completely lifted in the green zone (which include districts such as Trivandrum, Shimoga, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Bathinda, Nagaon.etc). Is it viable to schedule the IPL in these rural locations?

Do India have cricket stadiums of international standards in these rural areas which you mentioned ?  I never heard any international match which took place in those venues in India.

Oh, come on. Trivandrum is not a rural area. It might not be a metropolitan but it's definitely one of the best cities to live and work. And yeah Trivandrum has a stadium called University Stadium. Actually they are two adjoining stadiums belonging to the Kerala University, the oldest one which hosted few international matches in the 1980s is a bit small and no longer used for International sports. The new one was built with international standards in the year 2015 and have hosted a T20 and an ODI match as of now.

[Sithara007]

According to the directives from the Home Ministry, India have been divided in to three zones. After the current lockdown is complete, indications are that the restrictions will be completely lifted in the green zone (which include districts such as Trivandrum, Shimoga, Aligarh, Gorakhpur, Bathinda, Nagaon.etc). Is it viable to schedule the IPL in these rural locations?

Do India have cricket stadiums of international standards in these rural areas which you mentioned ?  I never heard any international match which took place in those venues in India.

Oh, come on. Trivandrum is not a rural area. It might not be a metropolitan but it's definitely one of the best cities to live and work. And yeah Trivandrum has a stadium called University Stadium. Actually they are two adjoining stadiums belonging to the Kerala University, the oldest one which hosted few international matches in the 1980s is a bit small and no longer used for International sports. The new one was built with international standards in the year 2015 and have hosted a T20 and an ODI match as of now.

LOL.. Trivandrum do have an international cricket ground, and the name is Greenfield International Stadium. So far, it has hosted one T20I (India vs New Zealand in 2017), and one ODI match (India vs West Indies in 2018). But then, this is a multipurpose stadium, which is also used for hosting international football matches (the 2015 SAFF Championship Final was played there).

[mersal]

I saw that this year IPL has been completely cancelled officially by BCCI while surfing on my mobile.Did anyone see that from official twitter accounts?

According to my information it's suspended, not cancelled. Plz scroll up, I have posted updates. They didn't posted anything on twitter but it's official announcement.

The news from the centre is With India in lockdown, IPL 2020 suspended till further notice

This was expected and this is now official.

Okay, just now visited the official announcement and highly no chance of playing this year based of cricbuzz statement.And I don't think they will host matches on statiums which are mentioned by other members because they may not get enough audicence to watch and also we don't know that we will control corona in that real soon.

[pakhitheboss]

I saw that this year IPL has been completely cancelled officially by BCCI while surfing on my mobile.Did anyone see that from official twitter accounts?

According to my information it's suspended, not cancelled. Plz scroll up, I have posted updates. They didn't posted anything on twitter but it's official announcement.

The news from the centre is With India in lockdown, IPL 2020 suspended till further notice

This was expected and this is now official.

Okay, just now visited the official announcement and highly no chance of playing this year based of cricbuzz statement.And I don't think they will host matches on statiums which are mentioned by other members because they may not get enough audicence to watch and also we don't know that we will control corona in that real soon.

Yeah it has been indefinitely postponed. I do not see any possibility of this season happening this year. India Government has already extended the lockdown till May and after May there will be restriction to gathering and organising events. So, forget IPL this year.

[FIFA worldcup]

I saw that this year IPL has been completely cancelled officially by BCCI while surfing on my mobile.Did anyone see that from official twitter accounts?

According to my information it's suspended, not cancelled. Plz scroll up, I have posted updates. They didn't posted anything on twitter but it's official announcement.

The news from the centre is With India in lockdown, IPL 2020 suspended till further notice

This was expected and this is now official.

Okay, just now visited the official announcement and highly no chance of playing this year based of cricbuzz statement.And I don't think they will host matches on statiums which are mentioned by other members because they may not get enough audicence to watch and also we don't know that we will control corona in that real soon.

Yeah it has been indefinitely postponed. I do not see any possibility of this season happening this year. India Government has already extended the lockdown till May and after May there will be restriction to gathering and organising events. So, forget IPL this year.

All the sports events are getting postponed for this year including the Olympics and Euro. We may remember 2020 as a No Sporting Year where no major sports event took place.

[Indymoney]

I saw that this year IPL has been completely cancelled officially by BCCI while surfing on my mobile.Did anyone see that from official twitter accounts?

According to my information it's suspended, not cancelled. Plz scroll up, I have posted updates. They didn't posted anything on twitter but it's official announcement.

The news from the centre is With India in lockdown, IPL 2020 suspended till further notice

This was expected and this is now official.

Okay, just now visited the official announcement and highly no chance of playing this year based of cricbuzz statement.And I don't think they will host matches on statiums which are mentioned by other members because they may not get enough audicence to watch and also we don't know that we will control corona in that real soon.

Yeah it has been indefinitely postponed. I do not see any possibility of this season happening this year. India Government has already extended the lockdown till May and after May there will be restriction to gathering and organising events. So, forget IPL this year.

All the sports events are getting postponed for this year including the Olympics and Euro. We may remember 2020 as a No Sporting Year where no major sports event took place.

Surely history will remember this as Lock down because most of countries in serious trouble and biggest population living in lock down even few parts of world have order shot at sight for this all.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Yeah it has been indefinitely postponed. I do not see any possibility of this season happening this year. India Government has already extended the lockdown till May and after May there will be restriction to gathering and organising events. So, forget IPL this year.

See.. if IPL 2020 happens, then it needs to start within the next few months. Because we have IPL 2021 starting in March 2021. So in case they schedule a tournament during October or November this year, then there will be a lot of viewer fatigue and the TV revenues will go down massively for the next year's edition. For the BCCI, the best thing to do is to call off this years tournament. They can make it up, by organizing a larger tournament next year. For example, they can add two new teams and make it a 10-team tournament.

[JSRAW]

Yeah it has been indefinitely postponed. I do not see any possibility of this season happening this year. India Government has already extended the lockdown till May and after May there will be restriction to gathering and organising events. So, forget IPL this year.

See.. if IPL 2020 happens, then it needs to start within the next few months. Because we have IPL 2021 starting in March 2021. So in case they schedule a tournament during October or November this year, then there will be a lot of viewer fatigue and the TV revenues will go down massively for the next year's edition. For the BCCI, the best thing to do is to call off this years tournament. They can make it up, by organizing a larger tournament next year. For example, they can add two new teams and make it a 10-team tournament.

Don't forget we have T-20 World cup as well. so 3 back to back tournament ( 2 IPL and T-20WC) seems overdose along with unnecessary bilateral series.

On another topic which is related to bilateral series, BCCI should do some brainstorming in this free time and try to work on some Tri or Quad series for ODI and T-20, instead of bilateral series. 

[Vishnu.Reang]

Don't forget we have T-20 World cup as well. so 3 back to back tournament ( 2 IPL and T-20WC) seems overdose along with unnecessary bilateral series.

On another topic which is related to bilateral series, BCCI should do some brainstorming in this free time and try to work on some Tri or Quad series for ODI and T-20, instead of bilateral series. 

The Sponsors are in favor of a longer IPL, with two additional teams and a total of 90 matches (each of the teams playing 18 matches). But the problem is that the existing franchises are against this idea. They argue that it may dilute the franchise value. The solution to this is to divide franchise fee from the two new teams between the 8 existing franchises. But then, the BCCI may not be very happy to part with $700-800 million.

Whether they like it or not, these are the facts that BCCI should take in to account:

1. IPL is not possible this year
2. Other cricket boards are in much worse state, when compared to the BCCI
3. Even other sports bodies in India don't have the sort of reserve funds that BCCI have access to.

[Juggy777]

Aye......
@Royse777 let's finalize the pool fees etc, 45 days should be enough for everyone to discuss/agree on joining fees or other rules if necessary.

@JSRAW what were the fees last year round as I’m keen to participate, but I can’t really guarantee it if I’ll be able to participate this year due to covid ruining my income. However if it’s upto $10 I may just try to join in, but once again I’m sorry as I cannot commit anything at this stage, however I’ll definitely be watching your announcements out here.

Last time it was free to join but this time community decided that there should be some amount of fees so that we can avoid any kind of signature spam + bigger prize pool.

Fees still not fixed.

@JSRAW @Royse777 since last time it was free to join how about we keep it that way for this season too, and allow only one or two posts per week per person to curb signature spam?. Alternatively you’ll could consider up to $10 for the joining fee, but then again feel free to increase it if all are fine with it, as we’re yet dealing with the pandemic, hence I’m not sure if people would wager more or less to join in the IPL pool.

[AB de Royse777]

@JSRAW @Royse777 since last time it was free to join how about we keep it that way for this season too, and allow only one or two posts per week per person to curb signature spam?. Alternatively you’ll could consider up to $10 for the joining fee, but then again feel free to increase it if all are fine with it, as we’re yet dealing with the pandemic I’m not sure if people would wager more or less to join in the IPL pool.

There were some discussion about entry fees long ago and the summary are here:

Code:

Interested Users - Proposed Entry Fee 
Royse777 - $20+
JSRAW - $5 to $20
akhjob - 15$ to 30$
SaShiRaJaVu - 0.001 BTC
RapTarX - 0.001 BTC
Haunebu - 0.001 to 0.002 BTC(Current price)
teosanru - $5-$10

Maybe we can fix it to $10 or 0.001 BTC (I am more into 0.001BTC) so that it's easy entry for everyone. I am not interested with a free entry in this year. We all know how it works and it's fairly recognized that we have cricket pools. It's important how may will join so to refresh everyone's mind I would like interested ones to confirm their spots. Once we will have decent numbers then I can post an address to send the fees and once the fees are sent then I will PM superbru link to join.

Let's dot it!

[JSRAW]

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 and allow only one or two posts per week per person to curb signature spam?.

Unfortunately its not going to work for simple reasons, we have 4-6 games every week continuously.

@Royse777I am okay with the 0.001 BTC / $10

[SaShiRaJaVu]

There were some discussion about entry fees long ago and the summary are here:
Let's dot it!

I am cool with the amount and finally we could see the IPL in September, i thought they will cancel the tournament, will there be more drama in the coming months considering anyone could get affected .


@JohnBitCo @ Vishnu.Reang Trivandrum is a capital city and since you touched about cricket grounds in rural Kerala, here is one in a rural village in Wayanad, Kerala

[AB de Royse777]

Let's make it round figure.

Entry fee: 0.001 BTC

Participants:
Royse777
JSRAW
SaShiRaJaVu
Haunebu
akhjob
eaLiTy

Let me know who else are interested. I would like to finalize the names first before collecting money.

[Haunebu]

Let's make it round figure.

Entry fee: 0.001 BTC

Participants:
Royse777
JSRAW
SaShiRaJaVu

Let me know who else are interested. I would like to finalize the names first before collecting money.

Sounds great. Sign me up. I think we still have an entire month before IPL 2020 officially begins which is more than enough time for everyone to send the fees and register themselves in this mutual pool.

I advise maintaining a spreadsheet here Royse in order to make it easier to follow the registered players. Am expecting 10+ players to join this pool.

[AB de Royse777]

Sounds great. Sign me up. I think we still have an entire month before IPL 2020 officially begins which is more than enough time for everyone to send the fees and register themselves in this mutual pool.

Added to the list.

I advise maintaining a spreadsheet here Royse in order to make it easier to follow the registered players. Am expecting 10+ players to join this pool.

I am keeping it on the above post and will put a link on the OP. I hope this should do. 10+ users will be nice.

Please all of you who are interested, response here.

Cheers,