Brad Hogg has come up with a few suggestions to make sure Australia hosts the ICC T20 World Cup in 2020 as per schedule in his new YouTube video. He has made sure that the suggestions do not break the laws enforced by the Australian government amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
Currently, a six-month travel ban has been enforced in the country which would mean that no international cricketers could fly to Australia in commercial flights.
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Therefore, Hogg has suggested that they can be brought by charter flights and can be tested before being allowed to stay in the country. Once they test negative, they can be quarantined for two weeks before they can begin training and then go on to play the tournament.
Hogg said, “We have to play the T20 World Cup as it is planned. A lot of players internationally have been in lockdown and they have not been able to go out to train. We have to get them in Australia probably a month earlier.”
“There are no commercial flights, so we need to use charter flights. Each participant who will board the charter flights needs to be tested for coronavirus, if they pass the test, they come to Australia. When they arrive in Australia, they will be quarantined for two weeks, and then they will be tested again. Once they pass it, they can train and play the tournament,” he added.
Watch the video here:
Big question: what happens to this year's T20 World Cup? Begins in around 6 months. Cancel it? Or just go ahead as planned? Time to talk about that on today's episode of Hogg's Vlog.
— Brad Hogg (@Brad_Hogg) April 15, 2020
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