The interim CEO of International Cricket Council (ICC) Geoff Allardice has said that the World T20 scheduled to take place later this year in India will go ahead as planned despite the rise in COVID-19 cases in the country.
Allardice further said that the body is not thinking of moving the tournament out of the country but is ready with some backup plans.
“We are certainly proceeding with the event as planned,” Allardice said during a virtual media round-table.
“Plan B we have, but we haven’t activated those plans yet. We are working with the BCCI, we do have backup plans that can be activated if the time comes,” he added.
Allardice took over as the ICC’s interim CEO after Manu Sawhney was sent on “leave”. The interim also told that the ICC was in talks with other cricketing bodies and how they are managing in the COVID era.
“We have been talking to others sports bodies about what they are doing, we are in a good shape at the moment but acknowledge that the world is changing at a rapid rate,” he said.
Allardice said that the role of the vaccination in different countries might help and also hailed the cricketing bodies for holding the matches successfully in the last 10 months.
“The vaccination role in different countries might change the dynamics… They have done an amazing job in the last 10 months in hosting matches.”