Mumbai, May 13 (UNI) The Bombay High Court has allowed the Mumbai Cricket Association (MCA) to go ahead with the T20 Mumbai League without the Shivaji Park Lions team, whose contract was terminated in 2020 due to alleged payment defaults, a lawyer said here on Tuesday.
The T20 Mumbai League was launched in February 2018 to promote local cricket talent across Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, and Thane.
Jupicos Entertainment Pvt Ltd, which owned Shivaji Park Lions, participated in two editions until 2019.
An agreement dated March nine, 2018, gave Jupicos the right to operate the team for the first five editions. However, citing payment defaults, Probability Sports (India) Pvt Ltd terminated the agreement in 2020.
Jupicos challenged this decision in an arbitration petition against MCA, Probability Sports, and others. It appealed an April 2025 order by a single judge that denied interim relief.
A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice M S Karnik in its recent order dismissed the appeal, stating, “Knowing fully well that MCA excluded Jupicos from participating in the meetings since April 2024, the arbitration petition seeking interim measures was filed as late as on March 28, 2025 on the eve of the auction. This belated approach is another factor, as rightly held by the learned single judge, to deny the discretionary relief in favour of Jupicos.”
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