NEW DELHI: The Board of Control of Cricket in India has confirmed that the UAE has been marked out as the alternative venue for the T20 World Cup scheduled for October in the event that it cannot be staged in India due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
BCCI general manager for Game Development Dhiraj Malhotra, while speaking with BBC’s Stumped podcast, said the board would try its level best to organize the event in India but will shift base to UAE in a worst-case scenario.
“I’ve just been named one of the tournament directors, so I’m doing everything we can to make sure it happens,” Malhotra said.
“We will be doing normal scenario, and worst-case scenario, so with all that we’re talking to the ICC at the moment. It would be (shifted to) the UAE. We’re hoping again that it would be done by the BCCI. So, we’ll take the tournament there, but it’ll still be done by the BCCI,” he added.
