— to try to undermine their credibility.

This final — on a weekday — was originally scheduled for May 25, and meant to be played in Kolkata. But the league wasbetween India and Pakistan.

In the past, the IPL has moved to South Africa and the United Arab Emirates because of national elections or restrictions imposed to during the COVID-19 pandemic. The suspension due to a border conflict was unprecedented.The Punjab Kings-Delhi Capitals game, and squads and broadcast crew traveled by train from Dharamsala to Delhi. Foreign players and their families flew out immediately for their safety. IPL is the biggest money spinner in cricket – one of the biggest properties in world sport – and the major stakeholders were determined for the show to go on.

was never in question once the cross-border tensions eased. The new schedule was drawn up — six venues were short-listed and the final moved from Kolkata to Ahmedabad.Perhaps the biggest takeaway was the swift return of most of the contracted foreign players, especially for teams still in knockout contention. In some situations, where replacements were sought, the Board of Control for Cricket in India allowed teams to hire players short-term.

Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis, for example, got out of his PSL contract with Quetta Gladiators and signed up with Gujarat Titans for the remainder of the season.

While the league suspension will go down in history, the season will be memorable for some scintillating cricket — 200-plus totals were posted a record 52 times in 74 matches this season. The previous best was 41 in IPL 2024.Young made her 2016 stage debut in Patricia Ione Lloyd’s play “Pretty Hunger” at the Public Theater, a play about a 7-year-old Black girl who didn’t know she was Black. The playwright told her she wrote it with Young in mind.

“Ione Lloyd is one of the people who really made me see myself as an artist,” she says. “She’s the one that kind of set a path for me in a really beautiful way.”Next up for Young is the movie “Is God Is,” which playwright Aleshea Harris is directing from her own 2018 stage play. Sterling K. Brown, Vivica A. Fox and Janelle Monáe are in the cast. Young calls it “a spaghetti Western-meets-Tarantino-meets-the Greeks.” Next summer on Broadway, she’ll star in a revival of “The Whoopi Monologues” opposite Kerry Washington.

After that, who knows? “I don’t know what’s next, but I can’t wait, whatever that is,” she says. “If something comes along, it’s about jumping into the next thing. If there’s life in me, I got to live it.”For more coverage of the 2025 Tony Awards, visit: