IPL 2025 Suspended: BCCI Halts League As India-Pakistan Wage War

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IPL 2025 Suspended: Left with no other option amidst severe tension and uncertainty as India and Pakistan are waging war, the Board of Control for Cricket in India has suspended the Indian Premier League (IPL 2025).

As written first by One India earlier, this was a decision which had to be made for several reasons, where safety of players and support staff plus spectators was paramount.

On Thursday night, the IPL was caught in a cleft stick, as the match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals had to be halted in Dharamsala, with the city of Jammu under siege. As missiles flew and India launched its sophisticated air defence, it was worrying for an IPL match to be held.

The decision to halt the IPL should have come earlier itself, when the Pahalgam massacre of 27 innocents incident happened on April 22. Sadly, the IPL Governing Council should have immediately halted the match between Lucknow Super Giants and Kolkata Knight Riders in Lucknow.

It was sheer callousness the IPL authorities allowed the match to take place as India was in shock after innocents had been butchered by terrorists from Pakistan. It was only a day later, on April 23, when Mumbai Indians played Sunrisers Hyderabad, were symbolic black bands worn. Come on, is the IPL so big that you do not care for human lives and emotions.

It is well known, the war-like situation between India and Pakistan had been building up for weeks. The moment India started defending the attack on its international border, the IPL should have been stopped. If not, hosting matches in North India and Jaipur should have been scrapped. The way ahead, nobody knows. This is not the time for cricket, since risk factor is high.

What was indeed ridiculous, on Thursday night, the IPL allowed a match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals to be staged in Dharamsala, before being stalled. The BCCI and the IPL Governing Council are not visually handicapped that they do not know where Dharamsala is situated geographically.

It is a full-blown war now between India and Pakistan, where the State of Pakistan itself has shown it is no different from Jihadis.

The IPL is club cricket at best. Yes, people enjoy club cricket but this is not the time for having fun when the brave Indian Defence Forces are safeguarding India and at the same time smashing the Pakistan terror camps as well as destroying their installations with sophisticated missiles.

The IPL could not be so greedy that in the fear of losing money and more, they wanted to risk lives of cricketers, which include foreigners as well as paying public?

Better late than never, the Friday meeting was clear the IPL cannot go on. As some former cricketers said, the BCCI should have on its own stopped the IPL. One cannot have matches in North India or in Jaipur or even Ahmedabad. Putting the IPL on hold is safe, for there is so much at stake.

It is not like the Covid pandemic where you can play in a Bio Bubble, like in 2021. At that time also, there were rumours the Bio Bubble was breached. The IPL bosses wasted little time in shifting the IPL to Dubai. Again, it was for greed of money.

Imagine, there were some social media handles posting videos from Dharamsala last night which showed panic after the stadium had to be evacuated. For the BCCI, shifting the teams and TV crews out of the scenic city became priority. How come the BCCI is so obsessed with money and riches, there is scant respect for humans. What if something had gone wrong in Dharmasala? The BCCI could not have answered.