The ICC has decided to wait for further more before deciding the fate of the men’s T20 World Cup, as it keeps tabs on the encouraging progress Australia and New Zealand are making against the Covid-19 pandemic. The tournament is scheduled to be played this October-November in Australia, but now the chances of the tournament taking place are very weak.
However, during a recent chat with SPortstar, Richard Colbeck, the Australian Sports Minister, said that the nation has managed to flatten the pandemic curve and they can now be a “fitting host for an international sporting spectacle” and could even allow spectators based on the ground situation at the time.
On Wednesday, the ICC board agreed to continue discussing a number of options, as part of the contingency planning, “whilst planning for delivery of the events in the scheduled window is ongoing.”
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Describing the same, ICC chief executive, Manu Sawhney said, “The situation surrounding the global pandemic is evolving rapidly and we want to give ourselves the best possible opportunity to make the right decision for the whole sport. We will only get one chance to make this decision and it needs to be the right one and as such we will continue to consult with our members, broadcasters, partners, governments, and players and to ensure that we make a well-informed decision.”
The matter has been the source of some tension between the ICC and BCCI, as communication between the two revealed, and has raised the prospect of the hosting rights of ICC events being taken away from India. The ICC wants its events hosted in India to be exempt from an Indian government tax, which, the board has said, the amount is from the earnings in 2016 when the last T20 World Cup was held in the country.
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Talking about the same Sawhney said, “The board discussed the ongoing issue of tax exemptions required for ICC events and agreed to extend the deadline given to the BCCI to provide a tax solution to December 2020.”
