ICC T20 World Cup 2020 likely to be postponed by two years due to coronavirus pandemic: Report

The 2020 T20 World Cup in Australia is set to be hit with a possible delay by two years due to the COVID-19 spread across the globe.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has brought all sports activities to a halt and players are practising social distancing and self-isolation during the pandemic.

According to the latest reports, the International Cricket Council (ICC) may postpone the T20 World Cup until 2022 as there is no possible playing window in 2021.

“The question being internally discussed was to postpone it but there was no status quo on ‘until when?’ Well, India is scheduled to tour Australia in December." a source close to developments was quoted as saying by TOI.

"Early next year, Australia have their Big Bash scheduled. March would not be an ideal time (with IPL to begin in April) because the broadcaster won’t agree to back-to-back T20 events," the source further added.

“India is anyway hosting the 2021 T20 World Cup. So, the ideal choice has to be 2022,” the source further added.

Earlier this month, ICC had claimed that the T20 WC will "go ahead as scheduled".

"In response to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the ICC T20 World Cup 2020 Local Organising Committee is monitoring the situation closely with relevant authorities, and will continue to do so," ICC had said in a statement.

According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW), there are 1251 confirmed cases of coronavirus cases in the country and 32 fatalities have been reported.