Despite the Mumbai Cricket Association's (MCA) promise to comply with all the conditions put forth by the Indian Premier League (IPL) Governing Council (GC), the GC has decided that the final of the T20
tournament on June 1st would be held in Bangalore, as announced earlier.
"The GC had a conference call last night (17th May, 2014) and after a lot of deliberation among the members, it was unanimously decided to stick to our earlier decision, that is to play the final in Bangalore," BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said.
"One of the main reasons is we don't have time till Monday (19th May, 2014) or Tuesday as a lot of preparations are needed to hold it," said Patel.
According to other BCCI sources, though the MCA had written to the IPL GC agreeing to meet all demands, they failed to get a written permission from Mumbai police to allow bursting of fire crackers past 10 pm, which led to the governing council's decision to retain Bangalore as the venue for the final.
MCA secretary Nitin Dalal said that this permission would have been obtained in the coming week.
"We had accepted all the demands. (Sharad) Pawar saheb would have got this permission this week," said Dalal, who mentioned that he was not aware of the IPL GC's decision to keep the final in Bangalore.
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