BCCI issues statement on death of IPL 2026 broadcast engineer

NEW DELHI: The Board of Control for Cricket successful India (BCCI) connected Tuesday issued a connection aft the decease of British broadcast technologist Ian Williams Langford, who was moving connected IPL 2026 matches successful Mumbai.Langford, 76, was recovered unconscious successful his edifice country successful southbound Mumbai connected Monday greeting and was taken to Bombay Hospital, wherever helium was declared dead. Police said nary suspicious findings were reported successful the postmortem, and a lawsuit of unnatural decease has been registered.Responding to the incident, the BCCI said: "The IPL Governing Council and each stakeholders progressive explicit their deepest condolences connected the untimely demise of Ian Williams Langford, a dedicated broadcast engineer, who was an integral portion of our broadcast operations.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his household and friends backmost home."The committee besides said it would widen enactment to his family. "The IPL is committed to providing each indispensable enactment and assistance to Langford’s household during this incredibly hard time."It added that information remains a priority. "The health, information and wide information of each subordinate progressive successful the creaseless functioning of the IPL continues to stay of utmost importance."Further enquiries into the lawsuit are ongoing.Langford was connected a enactment duty arsenic a broadcast technologist for BCCI/IPL matches.