BCCI officials told to work from home

New Delhi, March 16: The Covid-19 pandemic has forced India’s biggest sports body BCCI to virtually shut down its headquarter in Mumbai from Tuesday with its employees being advised to work from home.

It has been learnt that the employees have been asked to “work from home” with all the cricketing operations already being suspended till further notice. “The BCCI employees were today notified that the headquarters at the Wankhede Stadium will be as good as closed in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic.

All the staffers have been advised to work from home,” a top source from the Board told. “However, if someone still wants to come, they can,” he added.

The BCCI last Friday postponed the IPL-13 from March 29 to April 15 along with all other domestic tournaments, including the Irani Cup and the Women’s Challenger Trophy. .

In India as well as across the globe, more and more companies are encouraging their employees to work from home in these critical times and no wonder, the BCCI is also going the same way.

It has been learnt that the National Cricket Academy (NCA) has also stopped its various zonal camps even though rehabilitation programmes at the Bengaluru centre was still on as on Monday. With the IPL already losing out on 17 days, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly has hinted that one of the options could be a “truncated IPL”, but only if the situation improves by April 15. In case of a truncated IPL, eight teams could be divided into two groups with the top four going into the knockouts. —