The opening ceremony will be a starry affair and the TNCA is in the process of finalising the details. The officials will meet the broadcasters and the marketing team over the next few days to decide on the details of the opening ceremony. The TNPL governing council which met here on Monday (July 18) decided to push the players' draft back by a week. "The draft was earlier scheduled to be held on July 22 (Friday), but we will have it in the next week," added a member.
Earlier on Monday, the TNPL officials had an hour-long discussion with all the eight franchises. Some of the franchise owners suggested that they wanted more time to prepare for the draft. "Some franchises want to go through the players' list before taking a call on their choice of players," the source said.
However, there were few franchises who were fine with the earlier date. "Once we have the players on board, we can start working on building the team, get the branding exercise going," said one team representatives.
It was revealed that even though BCCI had given a verbal go-ahead, they haven't yet officially cleared the participation of outstation players registered with TNCA for the TNPL. Some of the franchise owners, who were lining up players like Hardik Pandya, Piyush Chawla hope that the clearance comes soon enough for them to go ahead with their plans.
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