Kolkata Knight Riders’s co-owner Juhi Chawla recently backed ex-Indian Premier League (IPL) boss Lalit Modi’s call for the T20 glamour-filled tournament to depart from its traditional summer months of April and May.

The promoters of the league are also, we hear, open to a larger window for the IPL. Shifting the IPL to winter and post-monsoon months will throw up a huge organisational challenge involving the scheduling of other domestic tournaments. Also, the large presence of Australian cricketers is because the IPL doesn’t clash with their season.