No ifs, buts or maybes: Mark Taylor desires ICC to determine on destiny of T20 World Cup this week

Former Australia cricket captain Mark Taylor has urged the International Cricket Council (ICC) to decide this week on whether or not the lads’s Twenty20 (T20) World Cup will go forward in October.

The ICC board is because of meet on May 28 to debate numerous points associated to the novel coronavirus outbreak and Taylor mentioned he thought they need to additionally tackle the World Cup, which is because of be held in Australia from Oct. 18 to Nov. 15.

“It would probably be good (if a decision is made)” Taylor, who can also be a Cricket Australia director, informed the Nine Network on Sunday. “Because then everybody can begin planning and we will cease sitting right here and saying ‘properly ifs, buts or maybes’.

“My feeling is the World T20 will not go forward in Australia in October as deliberate.

“Is it going to be viable to have a world tournament in October or November? The answer to that is probably no.”

The ICC had beforehand mentioned a choice on the World Cup would most likely not be made till no less than August.

The choice has been difficult by solutions that directors are additionally eager to reschedule the money-spinning Indian Premier League (IPL) for later this yr after it was indefinitely postponed in April.

The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has mentioned it might not look to reschedule the match till after the dates of the T20 World Cup have been determined.

Taylor, nonetheless, felt the monetary clout of the BCCI and the size of salaries that gamers can earn for his or her stints within the match may sway decision-makers.

The IPL is price about $530 million to the BCCI and gamers can probably earn tons of of 1000’s of {dollars} for about six weeks work.