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Staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia in October will be “impossible” due to the logistical challenges involved, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani believes. Chief among the concerns is how to keep 16 teams in a bio-secure bubble throughout the duration of the World Cup to limit the risk of coronavirus.
While Australia’s rate of coronavirus infections has slowed in recent weeks, Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings conceded on Tuesday that expectations that the tournament would go ahead as planned in the autumn were “unrealistic”.
And Mani, an ICC board member, added in a virtual media briefing on Wednesday that the Australian government was still being “very cautious” about the risks of hosting the tournament.
Staging the Twenty20 World Cup in Australia in October will be “impossible” due to the logistical challenges involved, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ehsan Mani believes. Chief among the concerns is how to keep 16 teams in a bio-secure bubble throughout the duration of the World Cup to limit the risk of coronavirus.
While Australia’s rate of coronavirus infections has slowed in recent weeks, Cricket Australia chairman Earl Eddings conceded on Tuesday that expectations that the tournament would go ahead as planned in the autumn were “unrealistic”.
And Mani, an ICC board member, added in a virtual media briefing on Wednesday that the Australian government was still being “very cautious” about the risks of hosting the tournament.
