Cyclone Fani defers CAB matches

The Cricket Association of Bengal on Thursday postponed all the local matches till Monday following the Cyclone Fani alert. "This is to inform all concerned that cricket matches of this Association scheduled to be held from 3rd to 6th May 2019 are hereby postponed owing to cyclonic storm 'Fani' as forecasted by the Metrological department, Kolkata. The revised dates of such postponed matches would be intimated in due course," a statement from the CAB read.

This will mean that CAB U-18 club, first and second division championship playoff games, one-day knockout, women's T20 semifinals and university matches will be deferred. The matches will resume after the Monday which is an election day, CAB joint-secretary Avishek Dalmiya said.