Asia Cup 2020 ‘cancelled’, claims BCCI president Ganguly

Board of of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) president Sourav Ganguly has claimed that Asia Cup 2020 cricket tournament will not take place this year due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The BCCI president made this announcement during a live Instagram chat with Vikrant Gupta.

"So the Indian team will play its first full series in December against Australia. Asia Cup has been cancelled in September. So at the moment I cannot say when cricket will resume in India," Ganguly told India Today.

His statement comes just days after Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) CEO Wasim Khan assured that Asia Cup 2020 will go as planned.

Ganguly in the same conversation also confirmed that BCCI hasn’t find a window for Indian Premier League (IPL) yet.

"If you ask about the IPL, we don't know when that can be staged because we need to find a window for that first. The T20 World Cup is scheduled in October-November, the ICC is trying that the tournament goes ahead because it generates a lot of revenue for them. Till the time we get clear-cut directions from the ICC about the T20 World Cup, we cannot decide anything on the IPL.

"We don't have a window for the IPL at the moment. We are going to Australia in December for the bilateral series which is part of the FTP (Future Tours Programme) which cannot be changed.”