Mumbai, May 13 -- 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 a...