The Bombay High Court today permitted BCCI to hold the May 1 IPL match between Mumbai Indians and RisingPune Supergiants in Pune, days after it ordered all matches post April 30 to be shifted to other venues instead of holding them in drought-hit Maharashtra.
A division bench of justices V M Kanade and M S Karnik granted the permission while hearing an application filed by BCCI's general manager (games development) Ratnakar Shetty urging the court to let the cricket body hold the May 1 IPL match as scheduled in Pune.
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The application had been filed following an order passed by the high court on April 12 directing for all IPL matches from April 30 onwards to be shifted out of Maharashtra due to the severe drought situation in the state.
By the High Court order, a total of 13 matches were to be shifted to other states.
Shetty, in his application, sought the court to grant permission to allow the cricket board to hold the May 1 match in Pune between Mumbai Indians and Rising Pune Supergiants as they would not be able to make arrangements to shift the match in a single day.Read More.
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