Mumbai, March 22: The Indian Premier League will no longer be "Indian" in its second edition as the tournament travels overseas and is likely to be held in England or South Africa.

The logjam over the mega-event finally came to an end as IPL chairman and commissioner Lalit Modi announced that the Twenty20 league would have to be shifted outside the country after an emergency working committee meeting held here on Sunday.

The BCCI Center catered to a Sunday brunch of a different sort as business honchos, who also are the franchisee owners of the IPL teams, discussed the probable alternate venue for the event. "Because of the attitude of the government that they are not ready to spare security forces for the tournament, we were forced to take the decision to move the event out of India," BCCI president Shashank Manohar told reporters later.

"We are in discussion with other boards who are willing to host the event. I apologise to the people of India for moving the tournament out," Manohar added.

"Dates and timings of the matches will remain the same. Indian audiences can watch the matches at 4 pm and 8 pm IST as they did in the inaugural season," Modi said.

"Revenue cannot be an issue, the 59-match tournament will remain as 59-match tournament. The issue is the integrity of the tournament. We want to ensure the quality, which we deliver and it cannot be compromised," Modi added.

Manohar assured that the event would go on so that cricket fans could at least watch the event on television. "We are in discussion with other boards and will decide the venue in the next 2-3 days," Manohar said.

Modi said the number of matches, format and timing of the event would remain unchanged and the organisers would not tinker with the "integrity of the tournament".

Modi said that the BCCI did not want to cut into the schedule. "It cannot be a truncated tournament. It doesn’t make sense to have a truncated tournament. We understand the sensitivity regarding elections in India and taking into account that sensitivity, we have decided to move the tournament overseas. Just because the tournament is taking place in a third country doesn’t mean that it doesn’t remain Indian. We will get the tournament back to India next year," informed Modi.

Modi said the telecast row concerning the tournament between the BCCI and Sony was likely to be sorted out in the next 24 hours.

Meanwhile, Manohar expressed his displeasure at the state governments’ attitude, saying Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra governments had changed their stance at the last minute.

The schedule of the tournament has been fixed from April 10-May 24 and BCCI said in a press release that there did not exist any other window for holding the IPL sometime later.

"We have multiple schedules, multiple venues, and multiple countries available to us. Now we just need to re-schedule the matches. Each team will have a home in another country, another state and another stadium," added Modi after meeting the eight franchise owners.

Modi though refused to blame anyone for the IPL’s shift of venue. "I don’t blame anybody for anything. Let’s not politicise the issue," he said.