A few matches in the continued version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have been rescheduled owing to Ram Navami celebrations in the City of Joy, Kolkata. The Hindu pageant is slated for April 17 and on the identical date the Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) have been to host the Rajasthan Royals (RR) at Eden Gardens. Hence, the sport has now been moved forward by in the future to Tuesday, April 16 which meant the sooner scheduled recreation in Ahmedabad swapping the dates.

“The Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad was earlier scheduled to host the match between Gujarat Titans & Delhi Capitals on April 16, 2024. The fixture will now be played on April 17, 2024,” an IPL launch stated.

With the overall elections quick approaching and a portion of safety deployed to guarantee easy celebrations of the pageant, the choice was taken to transfer the dates. “Since the match is coinciding with Ram Navami and a portion of security is already deployed for elections. Therefore it won’t be possible for us to provide adequate security for the match on April 17,” Kolkata Police was quoted as saying to PTI in a letter to Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) president Snehashish Ganguly.

The fixture guarantees to be a mouth-watering context given each KKR and the Royals are the one unbeaten groups in the event simply but. Even although it’d change in a couple of days given there are nonetheless two weeks to go for the conflict, the 2 groups look very sturdy and there isn’t any motive why it could possibly be one of many games of the event. The rescheduling implies that the Knight Riders can be taking part in two back-to-back games at dwelling on April 14 in opposition to the Lucknow Super Giants and on April 16 in opposition to the Rajasthan Royals.

It just isn’t the primary time that games have been rescheduled due to festivals. The India-Pakistan recreation in World Cup 2023 was preponed by a day from October 15 to 14 due to first day of the Navaratri pageant and equally, the Pakistan-England conflict was additionally moved forward from November 12 to November 11 on the event of Kaali Pooka in Kolkata on Sunday.