The T20 World Cup to be held in India is being shifted to the UAE because of well being security issues arising out of COVID-19, BCCI president Sourav Ganguly instructed PTI on Monday, forward of the mega-event in October-November. Putting an finish to the speculations round .
“We have officially informed the ICC that the T20 World Cup may be shifted to the United Arab Emirates. The details are being chalked out,” Ganguly mentioned.
“The decision was taken keeping in mind the health safety concerns of all the stakeholders,” he mentioned.
The BCCI, nevertheless, will proceed to host the showpiece.
Asked if the event begin date has been fastened for October 17, Ganguly mentioned: “We will be able to finalize the travel details in a few days. The start of October 17 has not been decided yet.”
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Even an ICC spokesperson confirmed that the worldwide physique is but to zero in on the ultimate schedule.
The ICC, earlier within the month, had given BCCI 4 weeks to resolve and inform whether or not India can host the marquee occasion in view of the COVID-19 scenario within the nation.
PTI first reported on May 4 that the event was being shifted to the UAE.
It was compelled to postpone the IPL after the pandemic, the second a part of which can also be being held within the UAE in September-October.
It was already a foregone conclusion that it might be tough for India to host the 16-nation event in 9 cities, with a number of layers of well being safety issues.
In reality, the ICC had already began its preparations and logistics for the event to be held in Dubai, Sharjah and Abu Dhabi.
The qualifying spherical could possibly be held in Muscat, which might give the best time for pitches within the UAE to clean up after the remaining 31 IPL video games until October 15.
Once the IPL was moved to the UAE, it was a foregone conclusion that the T20 World Cup would go forward given the rising issues a couple of attainable third wave of COVID-19 infections round that point.
India was ravaged by a second wave in April-May, which lacked important medical provides, which emerged on the peak of the disaster with over 4 lakh each day circumstances.
“If the BCCI is unable to host the eight-team IPL in September, how can it host the World T20 inside a month? Also, we now have a brand new variant (Delta 3) and there’s each likelihood of a 3rd wave hitting the nation in October.
A member of the ICC Board, on the situation of anonymity, instructed PTI, “BCCI officials always knew that this would not be practically possible.”
Also, India is on the ‘Red List’ of nations like England and Australia and journey could possibly be a difficulty if the foundations should not relaxed by then.
It can also be understood that a lot of the member nations have been comfy enjoying IPL in UAE after there have been a number of circumstances of bubble breach in the course of the postponed version in India.
Also the 2020 IPL in UAE was an enormous success with a decent bio-bubble.
The BCCI was additionally contemplating whether or not Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Pune can host the three-city occasion with the ultimate on the Narendra Modi Stadium. But there have been issues on that entrance as nicely.
“Playing Pakistan in Mumbai or Pune would have at all times been a difficulty. So there have been many elements. In IPL, many gamers bought contaminated with COVID-19, you possibly can have good replacements.
“But what about weaker teams? What if they lose five or six top players? They won’t have a ready replacement,” the supply argued.
The Indian group will attain Dubai from Manchester on 15 September on a constitution flight to play within the IPL with their T20 gamers.
It will probably be round two months within the nation until the second week of November when the T20 World Cup will finish.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
