IPL 2018 | SCA requests BCCI to allow them to host play-off games of IPL season 11
After requests from MCA and MPCA to the BCCI for allowing Pune and Indore to host the playoff games for IPL this season, SCA has now requested BCCI to allow them to host at least one playoff game in Rajkot this year. Rajkot had previously hosted 10 IPL games spread between 2016 and 2017 seasons.
BCCI on 14th Feb announced the IPL schedule but didn't disclose the venues for the playoff games. But as the BCCI is looking for applicants to host the playoff games this year, MCA and MPCA were the first ones to send the request followed by SCA who have requested for allowing Rajkot to host at least one game this year.
In an e-mail (a copy is with TOI) on Saturday addressed to BCCI CEO Rahul Johri, Madhukar S Worah, joint secretary of the SCA wrote, "We have successfully staged ten IPL matches during seasons 9 and 10. Our stadium was the home ground of the Gujarat Lions. All these matches were well administered and had a very good response. Our stadium has successfully staged IPL matches and was well appreciated by the IPL teams, spectators, the media as well as the administrators of IPL."
"During the IPL-11, we wish that at least one playoff match be played at the Saurashtra Cricket Association stadium. Staging a play-off match at our stadium will meaningfully enhance the enthusiasm of cricket- loving spectators of the IPL in general and Gujarat in particular."
BCCI had barred Rajkot from hosting any of the games this season to which Wohah wrote, "A stadium like ours is not hosting any other IPL matches during the upcoming season. As mentioned earlier, we have staged IPL matches successfully during the previous seasons. Hosting at least playoff match shall be an
Worah has also marked his e-mail to the Supreme Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) along with Amitabh Choudhary, Anirudh Chaudhry, Rajiv Shukla and Hemang Amin.
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