The Board of Control of Cricket in India has efficiently managed to hunt a 1-month interval for deciding on internet hosting the T20 World Cup in India. The International Cricket Council (ICC), in its Board Meeting on Tuesday, stated the BCCI should reply by June 28.The BCCI stated on May 29 that it had authorised its workplace bearers to hunt an extension in time to determine on the T20 World Cup amid the Covid-19 pandemic. The BCCI has the internet hosting rights for this yr’s version, scheduled to be held in October-November. Notably, the T20 World Cup was postponed final yr because of the pandemic.The BCCI introduced on Saturday that the rest of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 which was suspended on account of Covid-19 instances in bio-bubbles could be held within the UAE. Notably, UAE is being thought-about as one of many back-up venues for the T20 World Cup.28 June deadline to determine on the Hosting of the World T20 is what I hear. India wants to tell the @ICC by 28 June.— Boria Majumdar (@BoriaMajumdar) June 1, 2021
If the BCCI is unable to host the T20 World Cup in India, the match is prone to be moved to the UAE. Earlier, Sports Today reported that BCCI is prone to transfer away from the 9-city plan that they’d give you earlier this yr.The BCCI had, earlier this yr, zeroed in on as many as 9 venues to host the T20 World Cup. The likes of Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Dharamsala, Hyderabad and Lucknow have been marked because the potential venues for the showpiece T20 occasion which is able to see 16 groups battling for the highest prize.The BCCI should create a UAE-like scenario, which is mainly, zoom in on a metropolis or a state the place, inside proximity, you’ve got a number of grounds, excellent accommodations the place individuals can fly in, get into bubbles, play the match and fly out.Meanwhile, the ICC additionally confirmed on Tuesday that the World Test Championship would proceed. Virat Kohli’s India and Kane Williamson’s New Zealand will play the ultimate of the inaugural version of the WTC on the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton from June 18.The World Test Championship, which confronted a number of difficulties in its inaugural version because of the COVID-19 pandemic, will proceed throughout the subsequent eight-year cycle between 2023-2031 regardless of apprehensions raised by ICC chairman Greg Barclay throughout an earlier media interplay.