T20 World Cup This Year “Unrealistic”: Cricket Australia Chairman | Cricket News

Staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia this 12 months in the middle of a world coronavirus pandemic is “unrealistic”, Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings admitted Tuesday. The event is scheduled to happen from October 18 to November 15, and officers have up to now stated they’re making plans for it to continue on the ones dates. However with many international borders nonetheless close because of virus-related trip restrictions, Eddings conceded that used to be having a look an increasing number of not going. “Whilst it hasn’t been officially known as off this 12 months, or postponed, seeking to get 16 nations into Australia within the present global, the place maximum nations are nonetheless going via COVID spiking, I feel it is unrealistic, or it is going to be very, very tricky,” he advised journalists.

Eddings stated Cricket Australia had put ahead various choices to the Global Cricket Council.

“The ICC are having conferences as we talk, it’s kind of of a movable banquet these days,” he stated.

T20 Global Cup leader govt Nick Hockley, who on Tuesday took over as intervening time Cricket Australia leader, stated he anticipated the ICC to decide concerning the event’s long term subsequent month.

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“Now we have were given an unbelievable native establishing committee who’re busy making ready for each eventuality and the verdict that can come,” he stated.

The in all probability situation seems to be rescheduling the event till subsequent 12 months, however it’ll rely at the standing of the pandemic and discovering a place in cricket’s crowded calendar.