The full schedule of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup has been released. 55 matches will be played between 20 teams at a total of 8 venues in India and Sri Lanka. The tournament will start on 7th February, teams like India and Pakistan will be in the field on the very first day. There will be 3 matches each day in the group stage. The World Cup final will be held on March 8, after which the Indian Premier League can begin a week later. But the Lanka Premier League, which was to be held before the World Cup, has been postponed, which will now take place in July-August next year.

The Lanka Premier League is organized by Sri Lanka Cricket. LPL was to be organized this month (December, 2025), but the Sri Lanka Cricket Board is currently busy in preparations for the World Cup. India and Sri Lanka are jointly hosting the T20 World Cup 2026, Pakistan will play all its matches in Sri Lanka. If the Pakistan team reaches the final then the title match will also be held in Colombo.

When will Lanka Premier League take place?

Due to T20 World Cup 2026, the organization of Lanka Premier League has been postponed by 8 months. While posting officially, Sri Lanka Cricket said that the sixth edition of LPL will be organized between 8 July to 8 August 2026.

Sri Lanka Cricket wrote in its post, “In view of the great need to prepare the ‘host venue’ for the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2026, the Lanka Premier League has been postponed. The World Cup will be co-hosted by Sri Lanka and India during February-March 2026. With this decision, this five-team tournament, Sri Lanka’s biggest domestic T20 competition, like many previous editions, will return in the middle of the year.”

T20 World Cup 2026 matches will be held at 3 venues in Sri Lanka

The T20 World Cup 2026 will be held at a total of 8 venues. Its matches will be held in 5 cities of India (Ahmedabad, Chennai, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai). R Premadasa Stadium (Colombo), SSC Cricket Ground (Colombo) and Pallekele Cricket Stadium (Kandy) have been selected as the 3 venues of Sri Lanka. India vs Pakistan match will be held on 15th February at R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo.

Lanka Premiere League 2025: In India, IPL is celebrated like a festival of cricket. In this tournament, the game of many star players of Team India is seen once again. At the same time, many new faces also get a chance to show better performance in this league. But now after Team India’s IPL, now Lanka will be seen in the Lanka Premiere League. This will be the first time that India’s players will be seen in the Sri Lankan Cricket League. This tournament is going to start from 1 December 2025.

India players entry into LPL

While releasing a press release from the Lanka Premier League, it has been told that for the first time in this tournament, players of India can also be seen. Whatever Indian players will participate in this tournament, their names will be released soon ‘. With this announcement of LPL, many Indian players are expected to join this league.

Lanka Premiere League

Five franchisees will participate in the Lanka Premier League. All teams will play 2-2 matches with each other in the league stage. In these five, whatever four teams will be ahead in the points table with more marks, they will reach the playoffs and a team will miss winning the title.

Many more matches will be played in the teams who reached the playoffs by qualifying the league stage. The top 2 of the points table will have a qualifier-1 between the teams, whoever wins this match, will directly reach the final. Eleminator will be played between the third and fourth teams in the points table, whoever loses this match will be out of the tournament.

Qualifier-2 will be played between the defeated team of qualifier-1 and the Aliminator’s won team. Whatever team wins in these two, they will take on the winning team of qualifier-1 in the final. Any team that wins in the final will get the Lanka Premier League title.

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Sachithra Senanayake Match Fixing: Former Sri Lankan -off -spin bowlers are trapped in the illustration match fixing case. He has been found guilty of luring fellow players for match fixing during the LPL Cricket League by the Hambantota High Court. The case is in the year 2020 and the commander is accused of luring 2 players in the Lanka Premier League to fix match.

Senanayake was arrested in 2020 and has rejected all the allegations against him. Please tell that the commanders are still out on the bell. The Department of Attorney General said that a national level player has been found guilty of match fixing for the first time under the recently launched Prevention of Corruption Act in the country.

It is being told that the commander may have to pay a fine of about 2.85 crore Indian rupees as well as 10 years in jail. Let us know that cases like match fixing have been seen in Sri Lanka, due to which the International Cricket Council (ICC) has described Sri Lanka as one of the most corrupt countries in cricket.

If we look at the cricket career of 40 -year -old illustrated Senanayake, he has taken 78 wickets by playing a Test, 49 ODIs and 24 T20 matches for Sri Lanka between 2012 and 2016. He has taken 53 wickets in his name ODI career and 25 wickets in T20 career. According to local media reports, he had offered fixing to Tharindu Ratnayake playing for Colombo Kings.

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