No expert cricket will be played in England and Wales before May 28 due to the coronavirus pandemic, cricket boss declared on Friday. The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) endorsed a seven-week postponement to the beginning of the 2020 season following conversations with the areas and the Professional Cricketers’ Association (PCA). The County Championship, which contains four-day top notch matches, was because of start on April 12. The Champion County coordinate, the yearly drapery raiser for the year, was to be played between the Marylebone Cricket Club and Essex in the not so distant future in Sri Lanka, yet had been canceled.
The ECB said it had started demonstrating a scope of choices to begin the season in June, July or August.
The prompt spotlight is on choices for cricket in June including the three-Test arrangement against West Indies, the Twenty20 Blast and England Women’s calendar against India.
The West Indies Test arrangement is because of start at the Oval on June 4.
The ECB said it would talk about beginning the season away from public scrutiny and would think about decreased variants of rivalries if fundamental.
“With the data accessible to us right now a postponement to the beginning of the expert cricket season until May 28 was unavoidable,” said ECB CEO Tom Harrison.
“This likewise permits us an opportunity to keep pace with a quick moving circumstance and keep on making arrangements for how an amended season may look. Fundamentally, we can likewise stay as adaptable and versatile as could be expected under the circumstances, inside the undeniable limitations we face.
“Making sure about the eventual fate of the game will be an essential concentration as we plot an amended timetable with an accentuation on the most monetarily significant types of the game for the provinces across universal and local cricket.”
PCA CEO Tony Irish, stated: “These are phenomenal occasions which require the correct choices to be made for all, including everybody working, and included, in cricket.
“The PCA underpins this choice to defer the beginning of the period dependent on master counsel identifying with wellbeing and prosperity and considering the administration’s position.”