The BCCI is assured that India will host the World T20 in October as per schedule regardless of a surge in COVID-19 circumstances in the nation however the marquee ICC occasion may very well be held in 5 cities as a substitute of initially 9 short-listed venues.As per conference, ICC retains a back-up nation prepared and it’s been the UAE for the previous one 12 months.The IPL is at present on in separate bio-secure environments however BCCI will face maybe its greatest check of managing a big-ticket ICC event in adversarial circumstances. ‘We are still hopeful that with five months left and significant population being vaccinated, we will be in a position to host World T20. Yes, one of the options could be curtailing the nine venues to a maximum four or five,’ a senior BCCI workplace bearer informed PTI on Friday.
An ICC recce staff was supposed to attain Delhi on April 26 to examine the bio-secure preparations for the IPL, preserving in thoughts the World T20 however the journey bans imposed on India led to the postponement of the journey.‘Yes, the team was supposed to arrive earlier this week but with travel bans in place, they will come later once situation returns to normalcy,’ the workplace bearer stated.BCCI’s GM (Game Development) Dhiraj Malhotra was on Friday quoted as saying by the BBC that ‘UAE is the back up venue’.
