Its chief says A$20 mil has been lost since the start of the virus crisis. FMTNews Australia Cricket
SYDNEY: Cricket Australia could lose hundreds of millions of dollars if this year’s Test tour by India is scrapped because of the coronavirus, its chief executive warned on Tuesday.
In October and November Australia are also hosting the Twenty20 World Cup, for which the International Cricket Council has said it is “exploring all options”. “If you contemplate the prospect of the international season, in particular, being affected, we have an issue of hundreds of millions of dollars on our hands,” Roberts told Australian media in a conference call.India, the world’s top Test team, enjoy a huge domestic audience, making their tours an important source of income for host nations.
“We don’t know what prospect there is of that next season, but certainly with a changing landscape… we won’t rule out a possibility of that until we get closer to the time,” he said, according to the Sporting News website.
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