“Please Daddy, come home", Sunrisers Hyderabad’s David Warner posted a card made by his young daughter on Tuesday afternoon on his instagram. Soon after, the 2021 edition of the IPL, being played in the middle of the worst wave of the pandemic seen anywhere in the world, was called off. The BCCI announced in a statement that the league was being "suspended indefinitely" after an emergency meeting of the IPL's governing council.