Others are facing logistical hurdles to leave the country due to airport closures, including bus rides of up to four hours before eight-hour train trips for some players.

Questions will also linger over the ramifications regarding player payments, given all teams have up to two matches left to play out.

The possibility of needing to postpone the tournament was made clear when air-raid warnings prompted the Ricky Ponting-coached Punjab Kings’ match against Starc’s Delhi side to be abandoned on Thursday night as the stadium was evacuated.

The Punjab Kings, coached by former Australian captain Ricky Ponting, leaving after the ground they were playing in was evacuated. Source: AP / Ashwini Bhatia

Airports in Dharamsala and Chandigarh — where the Kings are based — have been closed for civilian and commercial use since Wednesday, while others across India’s north-western corridor are also out of bounds to the cricketers.

Cricket Australia (CA) has been across the situation in India and Pakistan since 26 people were killed and 17 injured in an attack in the Kashmir region late last month.