{"id":169079,"date":"2026-05-18T12:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=169079"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T17:34:26","slug":"m-a-chidambaram-stadium-could-play-host-to-bbl16-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/?p=169079","title":{"rendered":"M.A. Chidambaram Stadium could play host to BBL16 season-opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"content-body-70995330\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">The season opener of the 16th edition of the Big Bash League (BBL 2026-27) is all set to be held at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here, confirmed a TNCA source on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The match is most probably to be played in the second week of December. A five-member committee of Cricket Australia (CA) officials, which attended the IPL match between Chennai Super Kings and Sunrisers Hyderabad on Monday, is here to have a recce of the stadium and explore the venue further.<\/p>\n<p><b>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/cricket\/bcci-not-a-public-authority-right-to-informaton-central-information-commission-latest-news\/article70994023.ece\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\">BCCI \u2018not a public authority\u2019 under RTI; CIC overturns 2018 ruling<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p>A CA representative refused to confirm the development, but said: \u201cWe are not able to confirm anything. We are exploring the potential of Chennai in partnership with the Australian Government to drive the India-Australia relationship. Nothing confirmed as yet, and we are working closely with our friends in BCCI.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is understood that BCCI president Mithun Manhas was also in Chennai to meet the CA officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"publish-time\" id=\"end-of-article\">Published on May 18, 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/sportstar.thehindu.com\/football\/international-football\/big-bash-league-season-opener-in-chennai-cricket-australia-bcci-latest-news\/article70995330.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season opener of the 16th edition of the Big Bash League (BBL 2026-27) is all set to be held at the M.A. Chidambaram Stadium here, confirmed a TNCA source on Monday. The match is most probably to be played in the second week of December. A five-member committee of Cricket Australia (CA) officials, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":169080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/GettyImages-2258077032.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgnRh4-HZ5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=169079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/169080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=169079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newslink360.space\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}