Some of the recent reports have suggested that India will be considering Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates are their back-up options if they couldn’t manage to host next year’s T20 World Cup. While there is still more than a year to go before the mega event which was set to be held in Australia this year but the ICC decided to postpone the tournament due to the  COVID-19 and inability of the host country to manage 16 teams.

According to a report in ESPN Cricinfo, “Sri Lanka and the UAE are among the back-up venues for the 2021 men’s T20 World Cup, should the COVID-19 pandemic make India an untenable host.”

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The ICC announced last week that India will be hosting next year’s tournament as scheduled in the original Future Tours Programme while this year’s postponed edition in Australia goes ahead in 2022. However, it is a standard protocol to have back-up venues listed for any global event.

Explaining the same, the Cricinfo report read: “Identifying potential back-up venues is standard practice for every ICC event, but it takes on extra significance in this time because of the nature of the pandemic. India is currently the third-worst-hit country in the world in terms of cases, according to most data studies, with over 2 million cases so far and over 45,000 deaths.”

It further added, “The current situation has forced the BCCI to relocate the IPL to the UAE, and only tentative plans are in place for the domestic season.”

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However, there is still no confirmation from the BCCI regarding the issue as they know that there is a long way to go before the tournament starts.