T20 World Cup venues might be curtailed however too early to ponder UAE shift: BCCI

The BCCI is assured that India will host the World T20 in October as per schedule regardless of a surge in COVID-19 instances within the nation however the marquee ICC occasion might be held in 5 cities as an alternative of initially 9 short-listed venues.
As per conference, ICC retains a back-up nation prepared and it’s been the UAE for the previous one 12 months.
The IPL is presently on in separate bio-secure environments however BCCI will face maybe its greatest take a look at of managing a big-ticket ICC event in adversarial circumstances.
‘We are still hopeful that with five months left and significant population being vaccinated, we will be in a position to host World T20. Yes, one of the options could be curtailing the nine venues to a maximum four or five,’ a senior BCCI workplace bearer instructed PTI on Friday.
An ICC recce workforce was supposed to succeed in Delhi on April 26 to examine the bio-secure preparations for the IPL, protecting in thoughts the World T20 however the journey bans imposed on India led to the postponement of the journey.
‘Yes, the team was supposed to arrive earlier this week but with travel bans in place, they will come later once situation returns to normalcy,’ the workplace bearer stated.
BCCI’s GM (Game Development) Dhiraj Malhotra was on Friday quoted as saying by the BBC that ‘UAE is the back up venue’.
However an workplace bearer stated that UAE was all the time the second choice as per guidelines.
‘You always have a back up venue and UAE has been the venue after it was passed at ICC meeting last year. There’s nothing new in what Dhiraj had stated. Obviously, if the state of affairs stays identical after 5 months, you’ll have to have Plan B prepared,’ the workplace bearer stated.
Usually, when ICC World T20 has been held in different nations like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the occasion has all the time been confined to a few or 4 venues however it hasn’t been a case in India as a result of board politics and its associated compulsions.
A former BCCI workplace bearer, who was concerned in organisation of each 2011 World Cup and 2016 World T20 put it aptly.
‘You have president Sourav Ganguly’s metropolis (Kolkata), vice-president Rajiv Shukla’s metropolis (Lucknow), secretary Jay Shah’s metropolis (Ahmedabad), treasurer Arun Dhumal’s metropolis (Dharamsala).
‘And there are four best stadiums in Mumbai, Chennai, Delhi and Bangalore along with Hyderabad,’ he stated, hinting that it’s troublesome to disregard any of those huge venues.
The distribution of matches has all the time been a really sensitive concern within the BCCI and if the World T20 goes forward as per plan, some robust selections should be taken.
‘The BCCI has shown that two distinct bubbles at one given point in time work wonderfully well but the moment it’s scattered to 9 cities, it might be a nightmare with 16 groups in query,’ the supply stated.
Also one other issue that must be taken under consideration is how easily groups can depart publish the event is over.
‘For Pakistan, it’s all the time secure to play in Delhi or Lucknow since Mumbai is out of query. Similarly for England or Australia, Mumbai is logistically very handy. So these are sure elements,’ he stated.