Updated On: 05 October, 2021 09:14 AM IST | Dubai | IANS
The T20 World Cup is the largest sporting event to be held in the region and it will be the biggest global cricket event since the pandemic with fans

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In a sign that things could be as close to normal as possible during the ICC T20 World Cup, scheduled to commence in the UAE and Oman later this month, the organisers have announced that all venues in the UAE will be “operating at approximately 70 per cent of maximum seated capacity,” the ICC said on Monday.
“In the UAE, all venues will be operating at approximately 70 per cent of maximum seated capacity, whilst Abu Dhabi has also introduced new socially distanced ‘pods’ of a maximum of four spectators on their east and west grass mounds,” the ICC said. The T20 World Cup is the largest sporting event to be held in the region and it will be the biggest global cricket event since the pandemic with fans in stadia.