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With the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2025 suspended indefinitely, it is very unlikely at this stage that India will tour Bangladesh (August) and participate in the Asia Cup (September) later this year. It is reliably understood that the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) could well use that window to complete the remainder of IPL if the need arises.India are scheduled to travel to England in the first week of June for a five-match Test tour and the August-September window could be the only opportunity for the BCCI to complete the tournament if the tensions don’t die down soon.Even if the IPL is completed before the scheduled India tour of Bangladesh and Asia Cup, it is completely off the table. The BCCI appear to be in no mood to soften that stand.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!The Indian cricket board is now ensuring all players, support staff members are safe and not in a state of panic after what happened during the game between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals in Dharamsala on Thursday night. It is learnt that the players from both camps have been in a state of shock since then, and they left the hilly region early in the morning.On Friday, the IPL bandwagon was in Lucknow for the match between Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) and Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB), which has also been called off.“Nation first,” posted LSG on their official social media page after the league’s suspension.India launched missile attacks on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) a fortnight after the April 22 Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 people were killed.On Thursday, a blackout was enforced in several districts in India including Pathankot, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Mohali in Punjab and Union Territory Chandigarh amid air raid alarms and reports of explosion-like sounds in Jammu.
