ICC postpones T20 World Cup in Australia

They would probably go to Adelaide, there is a hotel basically in the Adelaide Oval complex so they could stay at their training site with no team buses, just a short walk. Feds and SA government would have to agree and that might be the clincher, would the people of SA be happy with a "one rule for us, one rule for them" situation? Particularly if SA was in a more serious situation than it currently is. By November, any state could be in any position.

Finally this mess is cleared up. Let the T20 leagues happen they can still survive with no crowds. An ICC tournament cannot bank on only TV revenue. I had planned to go Hobart for Bangladesh's games but will have to wait till next year which is fine. Who wants to quarantine in Tassie anyway?

No surprise. I know Fox cricket has rights to ICC events until early 2024. according to Nine CEO, Hugh marks, he said there will be cuts to one-off sporting events like, the T20 World Cup and The ashes. NExt year, Will Nine televise next years T20 World Cup?

@Save the Earth Very happy too - can you please set up a meeting. If you can't I'll just continue voting with my feet, wallet and channel selector. Suggest you do same :thumbup:

really? say that to the broadcaster.????

Ha. Yes the irony of cancelling the T20WC because of the logistics of multiple teams, only to replace it with the IPL!

Not really. I just looked at the numbers of people affected by the virus in the UAE and they're pretty scary. Over 270 cases reported yesterday alone. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/united-arab-emirates/ Maybe they could play the IPL in Australia & New Zealand! :stoked:

They're not relevant to a cricket tour Jeff. Team India - quarantine in a single facility, single flight, which they would be paying for international students - huge costs to quarantine thousands of people assuming the government ran it, and my reference to not being monitored refers to if they are let in and told to quarantine for 14 days after leaving the airport, there's no way in hell they will be able to keep track of everyone and ensure someone isn't sneaking out for a butter chicken. And if the goverment runs quarantine hotels it will be a truly gigantic organisation of logistics. A cricket tour is a lot easier to get off the ground, and would require almost zero cost on our part because India cricket would be paying the bills. Mostly. international students are a tiny amount compared to what we are spending on defence spending - 32 B vs 270B or whatever it was, and just as irrelevant to each other as international students to a cricket tour. It's unconvincing because you're joining together two illogical concepts and trying to claim a link because MONEY. I don't see the relevance. This is a cricket forum. I'm here to talk cricket.

This is turning into a bit of a mess, by the sounds. There's a white ball tour of the UK tentatively scheduled for September, then a number of that squad potentially head off to the UAE for the IPL. Straight after that, they head back to Australia when the BBL starts, as well as the rest of the Aussie domestic summer. Throw in periods of quarantine in the UAE & Australia and this is a very tough schedule for guys like Cummins, IMO.

That would make a lot of sense.

This story seems to have a pretty fair take on what's likely to happen in the coming weeks, https://www.cricket.com.au/news/twenty20-t20-icc-cricket-world-cup-postponed-australia-playing-schedule-indian-premier-league-tests/2020-07-21

Jeff, there was this statement about the IPL for the reasons you've described. "Attention now turns to the BCCI, which is expected to announce a full IPL schedule, with the United Arab Emirates now looming as the likely destination for this year's tournament"

Don't see the relevance of international students whatsoever? 1) If quarantine is completed, what's the relevance of whether there are thousands of individuals not being monitored vs a squad of people staying together? Are you suggesting 14 days quarantine isn't appropriate? What exactly is the India team being monitored for over two months post quarantine? 2) The "amount of money riding on this" re cricket is inconsequential to the 32 BILLION dollar intl student industry which is Australia's 4th largest export industry. "I think with the amount of money riding on this they’ll get Team India in" Right, so you've used financial incentive to justify why one thing would simply have to go ahead ($100m?), but dismissed financial return to the economy from something else ($32B). That's unconvincing.

Peter Dutton can give an exemption to anyone in any circumstances as Home Affairs Minister re: borders. I don't see the relevance of international students comparison whatsoever. You're comparing thousands of individuals who wouldn't be monitored once entering the country vs a squad of people all staying together and who would be closely monitored the entire time they're here. None of what you have said is convincing.

IT would need some extraordinary exemptions from numerous governments (Fed and State) which would be weird to give to a group of people coming from the third largest hotbed of CV on the planet soon after a nationwide T20 tournament. Possibly we could see a couple of Tests in WA (WACA and Optus) and maybe Adelaide as well.

NZ have 5 Tests against Windies and Pakistan this summer, but I guess if Australia hasn't lifted its border closure by summer to facilitate the India tour, then its probably likely NZ won't have either, so could be a possibility if the Aus/NZ bubble gets up as a concept.

Unfortunately for Sourav, 3 days after he made those comments he himself went into home quarantine because his brother had contracted CV. Perhaps that will give him a different perspective on potential for contracting/transmission and the need for 2 weeks quarantine. It will be tough for them though if they aren't given an exemption from 14 day hotel lockdown to train; Hazelwood has said it's vital that the Australian players be allowed to train in quarantine after returning from England in September or India in November. That said, and still some to go, but unless you are an Australian citizen or resident, you simply can't enter Australia right now so if that doesn't get lifted in the next 10-12 weeks, surely the tour would be cancelled or the start delayed. Still can't international students back into the country, and that's a multi-billion dollar sector for Australia, dwarfing the value of the cricket tour.

If I was an international player, not sure I'd be wanting to be travelling around India for 6 weeks just 10 weeks from now, irrespective of the protective measures which are claimed to be put in place.

Wouldn’t it just be a matter of sorting quarantine? Gate receipts from crowds a big question mark in some states, but that seems unlikely to derail it given likely money from TV.

You reckon? I think with the amount of money riding on this they'll get Team India in, no small amount of cricket tragics in the ranks of the Liberal party. Not quite the days of John Howard where he'd probably have sent the RAAF jet to pick them up but I imagine they'll get some sort of deal where they can do quarantine in Australia and have a facility made available for them to train at exclusively. I know Ganguly said they weren't keen on 14 days quarantine but he's a tool and won't be the person making the call on this one. Both boards will want this to happen.