Cricket Australia "planning for the worst and hoping for the best" - Kevin Roberts

Kevin Roberts said Australian Cricket players are preparing for worst and expecting for best after the announcement of home summer schedule.

Cricket Australia "planning for the worst and hoping for the best" - Kevin Roberts

After announcing the home schedule on this summer, Kevin Roberts noticed that Australian Cricketers are "planning for the worst and hoping for the best". According to release, Under Down of the international season will be held from 9th August, 2020( when Zimbabwe will play ODI) to 20th February, 2020 (New Zealand's T20).

"It could be everything from the season delivered in full to significant issues with bringing teams in. We're very optimistic that we'll be able to stage the Indian men's tours and the other inbound tours for the season. We're realistic enough to know they will look very different to a normal summer," he said and he also added, "We're optimistic that we will withstand this situation and we're hopeful we can deliver the season looking very similar to the schedule we've just released." 

The releasing date is scheduled on 28th March, Thursday by CA which has raised a lot of question marks, where it raises men's T20 World Cup of 2020. They have publish a report where they said the T20 will be postponed for this year and it should schedule on 2021. According to Kevin Robert, it can be rescheduled on February-March or October-November on 2021, he also said in addition, "there's a very high risk of happening".

He explained, "There are implications for ICC events over a number of years. A lot of complexity for the ICC to deal with. They need to be thinking about when to stage the men's T20 World Cup that's planned for Australia. There's another one planned in India a year later and then in 2023, there's the men's cricket World Cup (50-overs) for India as well. And not to forget on the women's side of the ledger, you've got the cricket World Cup in NZ early next year. The ICC is juggling a lot of balls there."

He also said, "The economic pain of the situation as we've heard from so many experts will be ongoing. And, so we are focused on delivering the best season possible noting that the likelihood of significant crowds is very slim. Ordinarily, that'll deliver well over 50 million dollars revenue to CA. It's likely that our biosecurity measures that we need to put into place to deliver our season will cost in the order of 10 million dollars. So, this is by no means an ordinary season in terms of the financial impact on Australian cricket."

Home summer schedule is now criticising locally with WACA over not bringing them to host the test against Indians. Robert addressed this saying of the decision of granting by Brisbane of the opening match against Kohli's Indian team which had to maintain the balance over scheduled FTP of high profile T20 matches.

"We empathise with the disappointment in Perth but at the same time, it's a historic moment to host Afghanistan for their first-ever Test in Australia. if Perth receives the India Test next year it would mean they would host two England Tests and two India Tests over this eight-year cycle - a total of four against England and India - whereas Brisbane would have only hosted two. That would have created an imbalance over the cycle of the FTP and in the national interest in ensuring we take high-profile Test matches to cricket fans in Queensland it was a more well-balanced solution, assuming we can have full crowds in place," he said.

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