{"id":22313,"date":"2025-05-09T12:18:56","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=596131"},"modified":"2025-05-09T12:19:36","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T06:49:36","slug":"confirmed-ipl-suspended-indefinitely-due-to-escalating-tensions-with-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/confirmed-ipl-suspended-indefinitely-due-to-escalating-tensions-with-pakistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Confirmed: IPL suspended indefinitely due to escalating tensions with Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major development, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has <strong>officially suspended the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 indefinitely<\/strong> in light of the escalating military tensions between India and Pakistan. This decision was confirmed by a BCCI official to <strong>news agency PTI<\/strong> on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STORY | IPL suspended indefinitely amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan<\/p>\n<p>READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ErKFHyc3wS\">https:\/\/t.co\/ErKFHyc3wS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IndiaPakistanTensions?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IndiaPakistanTensions<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IPL2025?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IPL2025<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ImrWo05NgI\">pic.twitter.com\/ImrWo05NgI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PTI_News\/status\/1920731540088049761?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 9, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The suspension comes after days of uncertainty surrounding the tournament\u2019s future. The crisis deepened on Thursday when the match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals at Dharamsala was <strong>called off midway.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Earlier, the BCCI had convened a high-level meeting to assess the situation. All options were on the table, including suspending the league altogether. Sources had indicated that a final decision would be made by Friday \u2014 and now it\u2019s official.<\/p>\n<p>The IPL, which had entered its final leg of league games, now faces a pause with <strong>no timeline set for resumption<\/strong>. With national security concerns rising following <strong>Operation Sindoor<\/strong>, the BCCI emphasized that <strong>player safety and national priorities outweigh all other considerations<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for further updates on what this means for the tournament, franchise stakeholders, and international players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major development, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has officially suspended the Indian Premier League\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":31716,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3801,3810],"class_list":["post-22313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ipl","tag-ipl-2025"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}