Former Australia player Mike Hussey has said that the World T20 which is slated to take place in India later this year should be shifted elsewhere citing the rise in Covid-19 cases in the country.
Hussey who is Chennai Super Kings batting coach has opined that it would be difficult to hold the tournament in India.
“I think it’s going to be very difficult in my view to play that tournament in India,” Hussey told ‘Fox Cricket’.
The former left-handed batsman further added that the cricket boards would be ‘nervous’ about going back to India for the tournament.
“I think they’ll have to look some pretty big contingency plans, perhaps looking at the UAE or somewhere like that that could host the World T20. I think there will be a lot of cricket boards around the world that’d be pretty nervous about going back to India for a cricket tournament,” said Hussey.
The International Cricket Council is likely to take a call on the event on June 1.
Hussey was one of the members of the CSK contingent to have tested positive fo Covid-19 earlier. Talking about the same, Hussey explained that he had started to feeling some of the symptoms.
“My initial test came up as a weak positive, and we were sort of hoping the next would be negative and it’d be alright, but unfortunately I got retested the next day and that came back positive,” he said.
“To be honest, I had already started feeling some of the symptoms and so I was thinking, ‘I’m pretty sure I’ve got it’,” he added.
The IPL 2021 was also suspended on May 4 with immediate effect after there was a rise in Covid-19 cases within the franchise teams. Apart from Hussey, KKR’s Sandeep Warrior and Varun Chakravarthy, SRH’s Wriddhiman Saha, DC’s Amit Mishra and CSK’s bowling coach L.Balaji had tested positive for Covid-19.