Earlier this year, Australia's Sports Minister Richard Colbeck had claimed that managing crowds will be the biggest issue during the T20 World Cup later this year amid COVID-19 outbreak.
The International Cricket Council's (ICC) Cricket Committee is set to hold a conference via video call on May 28 where the fate of the T20 World Cup in Australia could be decided.
The sources within the cricketing governing body recently also confirmed that the T20 World Cup will be the topmost agenda in the video conference meeting.
"There is a meeting of cricket committee on May 28 and the top agenda of this meeting is to discuss the way forward for T20 World Cup, may proposals will be discussed, including the postponement of the tournament to 2022," sources within the ICC told ANI.
Earlier this year, Australia's Sports Minister Richard Colbeck had claimed that managing crowds will be the biggest issue during the T20 World Cup later this year amid COVID-19 outbreak.
The T20 World Cup is scheduled to be hosted by Australia in October-November later this year.
However, the coronavirus outbreak has brought all sports activities to a halt, players are practising social distancing and self-isolation during the pandemic.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the governments all around are urging people to stay at home.
"The issue for the World Cup is not so much the teams as the crowds and that's probably one of the hurdles we really have to consider and probably one that world cricket will look at pretty closely as well," ESPNCricinfo had quoted Colbeck as saying on the radio station SEN.
"We all know the difference in atmosphere when you see a filled stadium versus one that's empty... they will be some of the broader considerations, but in a team, since I'd like to think that we can build some protocols with the cooperation of the sport and the players, that's going to be extremely important, with appropriate quarantine and biosecurity protocols to see if we can make the competition go ahead," he added.
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