BCCI President Sourav Ganguly might have announced that an All-Star game will be held ahead of the 2020 edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but a TOI report claims franchises aren’t keen to share their players just before the main event.

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Apparently, the players have been pooled in from all eight franchises to form two teams for the All-Star game.

The team owners are not finding it viable as there are cricket and commercial reasons involved.

“Commercially, we are not okay if players don’t wear our jersey (regardless of an All-Star game),” a franchise owner told TOI.

“Sharing a player just days or a week before the start of the IPL doesn’t make sense. There are injury risks involved. A player will have to miss out on team bonding exercises and travel that much more. There’s only that much time that players — who arrive from all over the world — get to bond with each other before the start of the tournament. It doesn’t make sense,” another franchise said.

Bearing in mind the commercials and other sensitivities, the BCCI might stage the All-Star game after the IPL.

(With TOI inputs)