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Paul Collingwood with ICC T20 World Cup in 2010. Photo: @T20WorldCup
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Paul Collingwood with ICC T20 World Cup in 2010. Photo: @T20WorldCup

BS Web Team New Delhi
The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday postponed the Men’s T20 World Cup 2020, scheduled to take place in Australia from October 18 to November 11, in view of the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. The decision was taken at the ICC’s board meeting, held via teleconference. 
 
The global T20 event was scheduled to take place from October 18 to November 15 in Australia, but the country's cricket board had in May expressed its inability to host the tournament amid a second surge of Covid-19 cases in the state of Victoria.

"The International Cricket Council (ICC) today confirmed the ICC Men's

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