Former New Zealand seamer Simon Doull has put forward his plan for how the upcoming Men’s T20 World Cup could be held as scheduled if certain precautions are taken.
The scheme, in Doull’s view, would require the acquiring of several private jets, a fortnight of quarantine for each team, and potentially playing games behind closed doors in order to negotiate and mitigate the dangers posed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Speaking on the Sky Sports Cricket Podcast, the pundit said holding the competition – set to begin in October – is “eminently possible”, but there is the matter of how important the tournament is to the ICC and whether the benefits of staging it outweigh the costs associated in doing so.
“How important is this T20 World Cup?” he said. “That would be the first question from an ICC point of view. Is it important enough to have private jets out of each country with cricket teams on them, two weeks in quarantine in Australia prior to the tournament, and then the tournament taking place? Whether it would be with people in the grandstands or not, I don’t know, but where do they rate this tournament, how important is it to them? Because that’s eminently possible isn’t it?
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“The ICC would have the money, the sponsors would have the money, there would be enough people who know enough people who have private jets to be able to make that a possibility if the Australian government were up for it and if there was quarantine and absolute guarantees that those players didn’t have any symptoms or catch Covid-19. How important is it? I guess we’ll find out in due time.”
