India, March 12 -- The M Chinnaswamy Stadium in Bengaluru is one of the most popular and historic stadiums in India, but has found itself in an odd cricketing purgatory in the last year or so. The tragedy in Bengaluru on June 4, around the grounds of the Chinnaswamy, which caused the death of 11 people attending RCB's championship celebrations, has cast a shadow over the ground over the last 10 months.

Now, with IPL 2026 approaching and the Royal Challengers Bengaluru heading into it as the defending title-holders, the stadium looks set to return to full use, conditional on clearance from a state government-led committee which is set to decide whether the safety standards have improved.

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