It takes some ambition — call it desperation if you like — and organisation to host a tournament of this scale in the middle of a global health crisis. Compared with India, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) can be classified as something of a coronavirus success story: The country has reported around 81,000 cases, with just over 400 fatalities.
Even so, staging cricket aided by a bio-bubble is an onerous challenge. Players cannot break quarantine and will be regularly tested, which will be made considerably difficult by the constant travelling and the awfully long duration — September 19 to November