Fromer Australian cricketer turned cricket expert Ian Chappell has said that if in International Cricket Council, BCCI wants to host Indian Premier League (IPL) in place of World T20, their is no one in ICC who can stop them from doing so.
Chappell’s comments come just a week ahead of the crucial ICC meeting where the fate of the World Cup, to be hosted in October-November in Australia, could be decided.
“The first thing you know is that the BCCI will win,” Chappell told Wide World of Sports.
“They’ll get their way if they want to play in October. At this point it appears to me that the chances of the T20 World Cup going ahead are somewhere between Buckley’s and none,”.
“With so many countries, I just think it would be logistically way too difficult, but that’s purely a cricketer talking, not a medical person or someone with experience running a tournament like that,” Chappel explained.
“But it seems to me with 16 teams to worry about it’s probably going to be too hard, and if the BCCI want the IPL to take that slot they’ll probably get their way,” he added.
BCCI on the other hand has maintained that it will not push for the World Cup to be postponed