Bollywood actress and co-owner of the Indian Premier League team Kolkata Knight Riders, Juhi Chawla has backed IPL founder Lalit Modi’s plea to move the cash-rich league up in the calendar. Earlier, Modi tweeted
suggesting that the tournament should be organised in months of January or have a better structured calendar between October to April in order to avoid extremely harsh weather conditions.
Now, Juhi has come in support of Modi’s suggestion and claimed that the tournament has established itself to influence the cricketing calendar instead of being dictated by it. “The IPL no longer needs to find its place in the cricket calendar. It has earned the right to influence it,” she tweeted.
“So why keep playing the biggest cricket tournament on the planet in the harshest heat? And if the calendar is being reconsidered, why not January instead of April-May? Better conditions. Better cricket. A better experience for everyone overall,” she claimed reposting Modi’s statement. “The IPL has evolved. Perhaps its calendar should too now!,” she concluded by saying.
The IPL no longer needs to find its place in the cricket calendar. It has earned the right to influence it.
So why keep playing the biggest cricket tournament on the planet in the harshest heat? And if the calendar is being reconsidered, why not January instead of April-May?
Better conditions. Better cricket. A better experience for everyone overall!The IPL has evolved. Perhaps its calendar should too now!
#JustAThought
— Juhi Chawla Mehta (@iam_juhi) November 9, 2026
IPL does not need a window. It creates its own: Lalit Modi on pushing IPL’s calendar
Earlier, Founder of the Indian Premier League, Lalit Modi took to X to argue that the tournament should be pushed in the early months of the year to avoid extreme weather conditions. “The IPL does not need a window. It creates its own,” he had tweeted.
“The IPL is no longer a tournament trying to find its place in world cricket. World cricket must recognise the place the IPL has already earned. I know this better than most. I created the IPL when many believed it would never work,” he argued, while reminding everyone how it disrupted the entertainment space in India during its early launch.
“Film releases were postponed, prime-time television was disrupted and entertainment schedules were rewritten. The IPL didn’t ask Bollywood for a window. Bollywood adjusted to the IPL. Now imagine the IPL choosing its own optimal calendar,” he added.
“My proposal is to seriously examine moving the IPL from the increasingly punishing April–May heat, with two alternatives: a January start or a carefully structured October–April competition calendar,” he went on to say.
