The Indian Premier League will continue as per schedule amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan. A top source in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told India Today that there is no change to the IPL schedule at present, even as the board closely monitors the situation.
A total of 56 matches out of 74 have been played in the IPL 2025 season, with the race to the playoffs heating up. The IPL, which began on 22 May, has carried on even as terrorists killed 26 tourists in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pahalgam on 22 April.
On Wednesday, India launched Operation Sindoor a tri-service counter-offensive that saw coordinated strikes on nine terror camps across Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, in response to the terror attack in Pahalgam. Notably, a group calling itself The Resistance Front (TRF), recognized as a proxy for the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba, claimed responsibility for the attack.
“BCCI is monitoring the situation and depending on circumstances, a call will be taken. For now, the IPL will run as per schedule,” a top BCCI source said.
While speaking to India Today about the IPL’s contingency measures, he said, “The IPL Governing Council is keeping an eye on the situation. There are a lot of speculative things going on; we cannot do anything about that. But whenever the time comes to take such a decision where it seems that something needs to be done in the country’s interest, then the BCCI will stand in solidarity with the government and the nation.”
