The costliest foreign player in Indian Premier League, Pat Cummins says everyone, including his team Kolkata Knight Riders, is still hopeful of the 13th edition of the T20 event to go ahead sometime later.
The Australian, however, conceded that the priority now is to minimise the risk of spreading the coronavirus.
“Everyone is still really keen for it (IPL) to go ahead, but the priority is to minimise risk of it spreading,” Cummins was quoted as saying by the Australian Associated Press.
The 26-year-old Australian has been in constant contact with the Kolkata Knight Riders team which bought him for a whopping Rs 15.5 crore last December at the auction, as everyone waits for the league’s fate.
“It’s a holding pattern ... The last I spoke to them, they were still really confident and hopeful it’ll be on at some stage,” he said.