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BCCI Imposes Heavy Sanctions For Bio-Bubble Breach & Fans Love This ‘No-Nonsense’ Approach


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Learning from last year’s mistakes, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) doesn’t want to take any chances with regards to players and the tournament’s safety this year. 

Hence, the world’s richest cricket board has imposed serious fines and sanctions to deter anyone – player, their family members or team officials – from taking the rules for granted and breaching the bio-secure bubble

IPL 2022 fines sanctions © Reuters

Sanctions For Players/Team Members 

In its letter sent to all the franchises, the BCCI has intimated them about heavy fines and sanctions that will befall them if they are found guilty of breaching the bio-secure bubble. 

If a player or support staff member breaches the bio-bubble, he/she would be asked to complete a seven-day compulsory quarantine on their first offence and no match fee would be paid to them for the number of matches they missed during that period. 

Their second offence would attract a one-match ban in addition to the compulsory seven-day quarantine. On their offence, the guilty party would be kicked out of the competition straight away and the franchise would not get any replacement. 

IPL 2022 © IPL

Heavy Fines & Sanction For The Franchises

The BCCI has prohibited teams from allowing any outsider inside their bio-bubble and if they do so, they would have to suffer serious consequences.

At the first count of offence, they would have to pay Rs 1 crore. If repeated again, one point will be deducted from their points tally and the third offence of similar nature would mean a deduction of two points from their table.

Indian Premier league © Twitter/IPL

Learning From Past

These sanctions come in the wake of what happened last year. The COVID-19 cases were on the rise in the country but BCCI kept on conducting matches at eight different venues across India, turning a blind eye.

Eventually, the tournament had to be suspended mid-way after Covid cases started to emerge inside the IPL bio-bubble. The BCCI was lucky that it somehow found a window in an already packed calendar and were able to complete the tournament.

IPL COVID-19 Protocols © iStock

The cases are on a decline throughout the country but given the unpredictable nature of this virus, the BCCI doesn’t want to take any chances and has limited the league phase to just four venues in Maharashtra.

‘No-Nonsense’ Approach

Most of the fans felt that these sanctions were too harsh but they also understood why the BCCI had no other option but to implement them.

The Indian board doesn’t want to avoid another repeat of IPL 2021 and feels that these strict provisions will make the players or any other team member think twice before thinking about breaking the bio-bubble.

This time looks likes whole season will happen in one time, unlike previous seasons. So many strict rules.

GOOD FROM BCCI

— SAKSHAM GARG (@sakshamgarg100) March 15, 2022

After repeating thrice, IPL to that player pic.twitter.com/l6jjXceWrX

— Pushkar (@musafir_hu_yar) March 15, 2022

Damn ipl getting strict

— Shreeman (@Shree9x) March 15, 2022

Really harsh but thats the reason for success of IPL

— thepurpose (@Windowz_guy) March 15, 2022 

As a fan of the world’s biggest T20 league, we just hope that these sanctions fulfil their purpose and we get to enjoy the complete tournament without any hiccups.


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