REUTERS: Former New Zealand captain Brendon McCullum thinks this year's Twenty20 World Cup is unlikely to go ahead as planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic and could be moved to early 2021 with the Indian Premier League taking the October-November slot.
"For Australia to move 16 international teams, plus all of their support staff and then broadcasters, seems a bridge too far."There may be a window a bit later in the new year of 2021 which could then open up a window for the IPL."The governing International Cricket Council is meeting on Thursday to discuss contingency plans for the World Cup and ways to restart the game once the pandemic subsides.
"The ICC and world cricket need crowds to operate but India can probably sustain things commercially behind closed doors because they are going to get so many eyeballs," said McCullum. Playing in empty stadiums has been mooted as one way of getting cricket back underway but former New Zealand seamer Simon Doull agreed that doing so at the Twenty20 World Cup was a non-starter.
Or 2020 can be moved to 2022
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