Former Australia captain Mark Taylor has acknowledged the increased likelihood of cricket seeing a late IPL in 2020 as opposed to the men's T20 World Cup. Taylor's inferences are based on the logistical ordeal of hosting a global event in the Coronavirus world along with the fact that Cricket boards will look to serve their own financial interests as the sport returns from its impasse.
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T20 World Cup postponement could pave the way for IPL: Mark Taylor
I have no doubt that CA will now be thinking about IPL and maybe not the T20 World Cup - Mark Taylor © Getty
Although Cricket Australia Chief Executive Kevin Roberts recently stated that a final call on the October-November T20 World Cup may not come until August and a clearer picture could emerge by May 28 when the ICC Board meet via video conference to discuss the sport's roadmap out of the health crisis. Taylor though believes the impending postponement of the global event will pave the way for BCCI to conduct the 13th season of the IPL.
"I think that's the most likely scenario [postponement of T20 World Cup] because 15 teams planning to come to Australia between October and November, 45 matches over a proposed seven venues. In the world that we live in, international travel is going to be extremely difficult," Taylor told Channel Nine Sports. "Fourteen days isolation before that makes it even harder. More than likely that event is not going ahead.
"So if the ICC were to postpone that event, that will open the door for the BCCI to say that 'we will have our IPL in India' which actually puts the onus back on individuals whether they want to travel rather than nations moving whole teams over to a certain country."
At play in this inter-connected scenario is a delicate financial equilibrium on which the game is based with India as its power centre. The BCCI, which stands to make roughly 512 million USD through the IPL as opposed to 80 million from ICC, has already
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