With India at the moment jostling towards the second wave of COVID-19, BCCI, the nation’s cricket governing physique, is at the moment engaged on a Plan B for the upcoming T20 World Cup, which is scheduled to happen within the nation later this 12 months.
As per contemporary developments, BCCI is mulling UAE, the nation the place IPL 2020 was held, because the second choice for internet hosting the marquee occasion if the scenario stays as it’s.
“I hope so. I am doing everything we can to make sure that it happens (in India),” Dhiraj Malhotra, the match director for the T20 World Cup, mentioned on the BBC’s Stumped podcast this week.
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“We will be doing normal scenario, Covid-scenario, worst case scenario. All that we are in talks with the ICC at the moment.”
Malhotra, who took cost this February as BCCI’s normal supervisor of cricket operations and sport growth, within the episode said that BCCI already had plans to shift the match to UAE if ICC had any issues relating to going forward with the occasion in India.
“It would be (the) UAE. And we are hoping it will again be done by BCCI – we will take the tournament there. So it will be still run by BCCI,” Malhotra added.
The Indian cricketers together with some prime abroad gamers are at the moment engaged within the 14th version of IPL, which is being performed in a bio-bubble. However, few Australian cricketers, other than Delhi Capitals’ R Ashwin and umpire Nitin Menon, have left the IPL bio-bubble on account of private causes.
