Amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, the apex cricket body meeting will hold the meeting via video conferencing, the same way like it did for its last emergent meeting on May 6.
Apart from the FTP, the nine-member Board Council could also put up for discussion, the burning hot topic of reviewing the Chinese sponsorship in the IPL amid the stand-off with China along the Line Of Actual Control. However, any matter concerning the IPL can only be officially taken up by the BCCI Governing Council, which had called for a meeting to review Chinese sponsorship in the flagship T20 leaguefollowing the Galwan Valley clash last month but is yet to come up with a date.
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The Indian cricket team, which last played on the international circuit in New Zealand in the first week of March, was scheduled to tour Sri Lanka for a ODI series in June-July but that series has been postponed indefinitely due to coronavirus pandemic. India's tour of Zimbabwe in August has also been postponed for the time being.
With the coronavirus cases is India going up at an alarming pace, the dark clouds loom large over the fate of the IPL, with the Board expressing its keeness to hold the thirtheenth edition of the cash rich T20 league later in the year.
Meanwhile, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly said that the national training camp for the players which was originally planned for the month of July may also not happen before August on account of the existing Covid scenario in the nation.