With an ICC spokesperson confirming the playing conditions for the recently held Women's T20 World Cup are set to be retained for the Men's version in October-November as well, there have been worries over the lack of provision for reserve days in the competition.
The England women paid heavily for no availability of a reserve day after the washed out semi-final in Sydney where India got the ticket to the final for having finisher higher in the group-stage points table.
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However, there is a chance such an instance can be avoided at the Men's event with the ICC Cricket Committee scheduled to meet in the middle of the year to also discuss playing conditions among other matters before they are formally signed-off by the ICC's Chief Executives Committee (CEC).
Any ICC member board if it finds the current playing conditions an issue can ask for its revision at the CEC gathering in a rare occasion of standard playing conditions being revisited so close to the tournament.
"There's always cause for reflection at the end of any tournament or any season, in terms of how you approach future tournaments," Cricket Australia CEO Kevin Roberts was quoted as saying by cricket.com.au.
"In saying that, there will be people who suggest there should be semi-final reserve days for the men's. But I'm not sure how the English women's team would feel about that, not having had a reserve day in their leg of the tournament."
"I would imagine the playing conditions are in place for the women's and men's events within this tournament (in 2020) and can be discussed and considered after that's completed," Roberts added.
"Typically, the playing conditions are determined before a tournament starts and we've got two events here – women's and men's – within the one tournament, albeit staged at different times of the year."
The T20 World Cup is scheduled to kickstart on October 18 and conclude with its final on November 15.
(Inputs from cricket.com.au)
