In the middle of the ongoing IPL 2020 in the UAE, the Cricket Control Board of India (BCCI) has started investigating the logistics of the India tour of Australia. As InsideSport has already reported, the Indian team led by Virat Kohli will travel to Australia from November 12-13 on a chartered flight.
According to a report by Mirror, All support staff and players who are no longer in the UAE for the IPL will be asked to arrive in Dubai By the end of october. BCCI will create a separate BIO-BUBBLE for Cheteshwar Pujara, Hanuman Vihari, Coach Ravi Shastri and other non-IPL 2020 support staff members.
The idea is to ensure that the quarantine period for the Indian team is not so long in Australia.
But according to sources, it has not yet been decided where exactly the base of the Indian cricket team in Australia will be. Last week, a senior BCCI official had told InsideSport that he still waiting to hear from CA about the exact tour itinerary.
“We spoke with Cricket Australia officials to finalize the tour program. Obviously, we have to finalize our plans accordingly. At this stage, we don’t know exactly where the team will land and for how long they have to be quarantined, ”the BCCI official told InsideSport last week.
Australia Tour of India: Cricket Australia has yet to announce the schedule or venues for the matches
Cricket Australia has yet to officially announce the schedule and venues for the major tour. Australian media reports that all state permits reduced to zero to host the matches have yet to receive the green signal for matches from local authorities.
Meanwhile, Mirror has reported that CA plans to have four different locations for the Test series. “All places will have crowds. There may not be full houses, but we will allow fans to enter the venue. “ the AC source is cited by the newspaper.
It is also reported that one of the four centers will be the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG), which will host the traditional Boxing Day Test.
Australia Indian Tour: The Latest From Cricket Australia – Broadcast Crisis
The dispute between Cricket Australia and its press rights partner will go into arbitration next week. But before the arbitration hearing on the broadcast rights dispute, broadcast broadcaster Seven paid the board a media rights fee of $ 10 million ($ 7.1 million). Seven and CA’s pay TV broadcaster Fox Sports have been in dispute over how changes in CA’s national and international cricket competitions have affected the value of broadcast deals.
The arbitration hearing to resolve the dispute will begin next week.
Seven pays around AU $ 82 million a year to CA for its rights in a six-year agreement from 2018-19 to 2023-24. Fox Sports pays just over $ 110 million per season in a deal that covers the same period. The deals have a total value of 1.18 billion Australian dollars during the period.
