{"id":211199,"date":"2023-02-18T00:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=211199"},"modified":"2023-02-18T00:11:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T18:41:46","slug":"guwahati-to-host-maiden-ipl-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/02\/18\/guwahati-to-host-maiden-ipl-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"Guwahati to host maiden IPL matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Guwahati, 17 Feb: Guwahati will host its maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in April with the BCCI allotting two Rajasthan Royals &#8216;home&#8217; games to the Northeastern city on Friday.<br \/>\nRajasthan Royals will play against Punjab Kings in the first match and take on Delhi Capitals in the second one, Assam Cricket Association (ACA) CEO Pritam Mahanta said.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are glad to announce that ACA Stadium, Guwahati will host two matches of Tata IPL on April 5 and April 8, 2023,&#8221; he said in a statement.<br \/>\n&#8220;Guwahati will be the &#8216;home&#8217; venue for Rajasthan Royals,&#8221; he added.<br \/>\nRajasthan Royals will play the remaining of their home games in Jaipur.<br \/>\nGuwahati was allotted two Rajasthan Royals matches in April 2020, but they had to be cancelled due to the outbreak of the pandemic and the subsequent restrictions.<br \/>\nThe Jaipur-based franchise earlier partnered with the ACA for a cricket academy, which is now functional at the ACA Stadium.<br \/>\nThe BCCI on Friday announced the schedule for the upcoming IPL. A total of 70 league-stage matches will be played across 12 venues over the course of 52 days, starting March 31. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guwahati, 17 Feb: Guwahati will host its maiden Indian Premier League (IPL) matches in April with the BCCI allotting two Rajasthan Royals &#8216;home&#8217; games to the Northeastern city on Friday. Rajasthan Royals will play against Punjab Kings in the first match and take on Delhi Capitals in the second one, Assam Cricket Association (ACA) CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-211199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}