India, June 19 -- Indian cricket board official - BCCI secretary Devajit Saikia has shut the door on the possibility of expanding the Indian Premier League (IPL) from its current 74-match structure to a home-and-away 94-match schedule. Thus, formalising conversations on the unlikelihood of an expanded IPL, nine months before IPL 2027, the last in the current media rights cycle.

Saikia told PTI about not wanting to upset "bilateral arrangements of other ICC nations". In the same interview, he also spoke about talks of advancing the IPL by two weeks to a March 10 start to facilitate a mid-May closure, citing weather concerns.

If it was entirely in BCCI's hands, an early March start, elongating the IPL by two weeks and doubling up with a c...