{"id":55448,"date":"2021-04-08T05:35:49","date_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55448"},"modified":"2021-04-08T05:56:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-08T05:56:48","slug":"icc-readies-pandemic-backup-plan-for-t20-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=55448","title":{"rendered":"ICC readies pandemic backup plan for T20 World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Delhi: Cricket’s governing body has a plan B in case the coronavirus pandemic prevents India from staging the Twenty20 World Cup this year, but is still months from a final decision, its interim chief Geoff Allardice said Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

India is scheduled to hold the World Cup in October and November but a new surge in coronavirus cases has prompted health concerns.<\/p>\n

“We are certainly proceeding on the assumption that the event is going ahead as planned,” Allardice told reporters at the International\u00a0Cricket\u00a0Council (ICC) headquarters in Dubai.<\/p>\n

“Cricket\u00a0is being played in a number of countries around the world and we are taking the lessons from all of those,” he added.<\/p>\n

Allardice, who took temporary charge of the ICC after disciplinary proceedings were started against Manu Sawhney, said the governing body had a World Cup backup ready if needed.<\/p>\n

“At this stage, we have not activated those plans because we are preparing to go ahead with the event in India as scheduled,” he said.<\/p>\n

But he added that there are still “a number of months to be able to see how the situation is and how\u00a0cricket\u00a0events are being run”.<\/p>\n

The Indian Premier League, the world’s richest T20 club event, starts on Friday with all eight teams in strict bio bubbles. But four players have tested positive in recent days.<\/p>\n

India is currently recording more than 100,000 new virus cases a day and the number of daily deaths has doubled in the past two weeks to more than 600 nationwide.<\/p>\n

Allardice said the ICC was also concerned about the impact that bio-bubble environments were having on players who are spending months at tournaments and on Test tours.<\/p>\n

He said\u00a0cricket\u00a0authorities hoped the growing use of vaccines around the world was “going to be an important step for us to head back toward some normality in the way\u00a0cricket\u00a0is run.<\/p>\n

“Moving forward, we would be trying to wind back (the bio bubbles) but continue to provide a safe environment.”<\/p>\n

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