Mumbai: Brabourne Stadium will not be able to host any of the IPL matches. This was revealed by the CCI president Raj Singh Dungarpur.
"We were very keen to host the matches but the arrangements couls not be worked out with the IPL franchisee-Reliance Ltd". "The discussions between the parties failed over the quota arrangements", he said.
"They wanted the complete Club House and the Members' Children Enclosure at their disposal which would have deprived our members to watch the match from their own club".
"The President and Executive Committee of the Club had several meetings to deliberate on this issue and eventually as per the Bye-Laws, we could not have asked our members to stay away for watching the matches". And this has resulted in their informing us that the IPL matches can not be held at CCI", club's President Raj Singh Dungarpur and vice president Badal Mittal said.
In fact, Mukesh Ambani had expressed his desire to host the final at this venue but the settlement could not be reached, it is learnt.
Now the IPL franchise has two options to host few matches — the DY Patil Stadium and Mumbai Cricket Association's Wankhede Stadium.
However, in view of the 2011 World Cup in India (and other sub-continents), Wankhede Stadium will need to postpone the commencement of renovation of the entire stadium till the inagural IPL Twenty20 matches are over.
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