IPL 2025, PBKS-DC: Match known as off amid blackout in Dharamsala resulting from safety considerations

Followers leaving the Dharamsala Cricket Stadium throughout the IPL T 20 Match in Himachal Pradesh on Thursday, Might 08, 2025.
| Picture Credit score: R.V. Moorthy

The IPL match between Punjab Kings and Delhi Capitals right here on Thursday (Might 8, 2025) was cancelled halfway following air raid alerts in neighbouring cities of Jammu and Pathankot, placing the whole league liable to being known as off resulting from India’s ongoing army battle with Pakistan.

The Punjab aspect was 122 for 1 in 10.1 overs when the lights went out which at first was attributed to floodlight failure. The sport began later than scheduled resulting from rain earlier than the hill city went darkish resulting from .

The groups and the spectators have been finally evacuated from the stadium for his or her safety. The capability of the picturesque floor right here is roughly 23,000 and it was packed to about 80 per cent of it on the time of evacuation.

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“There was no panic from the spectators. They (spectators and gamers) have been moved out of the stadium very fastidiously and safely,” an HPCA supply informed PTI Prabhsimran Singh was batting at 50 off 28 balls whereas his opening accomplice Priyansh Arya made 70 off 34 balls earlier than getting dismissed by pacer T Natarajan earlier than proceedings got here to a halt as floodlights went out.

With the cancellation of tonight’s match, it isn’t clear whether or not the league will proceed any additional and it’s learnt {that a} BCCI assembly is at the moment in progress amid safety considerations raised by the taking part overseas gamers.

India launched missile assaults on terror infrastructure in Pakistan and Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir a fortnight after the April 22 Pahalgam terror assault by which 26 folks have been killed.

On Thursday, a blackout was enforced in a number of districts together with Pathankot, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Mohali in Punjab and Union Territory Chandigarh amid air raid alarms and experiences of explosion-like sounds in Jammu.