Even as the makers of Sacred Games build buzz around the upcoming second season with perfectly-timed teasers, it may be a while before fans can go back to the universe of Sartaj Singh and Ganesh Gaitonde.

mid-day has learnt that the suits at Netflix have decided that the second edition of the Saif Ali Khan and Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer — which was slated to drop online on June 28, a year since its first edition streamed — will benefit from releasing in late August.