As Covid Cases Surge in UK, ECB Worried Overseas Players Might Give The Hundred a Miss

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) is conserving a shut watch on the rising Covid-19 circumstances in the United Kingdom because it fears it might result in abroad gamers deciding to offer this 12 months’s The Hundred event, which begins in two weeks’ time, a miss.

The month-long competitors returns for its second 12 months on August 3, with the fixtures for the boys’s and ladies’s competitions having been introduced. The males’s motion begins with Southern Brave taking over Welsh Fire at The Ageas Bowl in Southampton on August 8 and ladies’s fixtures start on August 11 at The Kia Oval in London.

There might be a doubleheader for the finals on September 3 at Lord’s. The reputation of the event may be gauged from the truth that greater than 500,000 tickets have been bought final 12 months and it has grow to be a main income for the ECB.

However, a report in Daily Mail on Sunday mentioned the ECB is cautious of Covid circumstances “impacting overseas arrivals” with a current surge in Covid circumstances throughout the UK in the previous few days. Fearing that cricket stars is perhaps reluctant to fly to the UK because of the “the dangers of the virus”, the ECB has began monitoring the state of affairs, the report mentioned.

The report added that that is simply a precautionary measure as there may be nothing to recommend that the federal government will impose a virus lockdown.

Getting a few of the huge names for The Hundred has been a drawback this 12 months and the ECB has allowed the eight groups to incorporate a fourth abroad participant in their squads as effectively. As per the federal government pointers, skilled gamers and officers are required to solely take a look at for Covid if experiencing signs and “they can return to action once a negative result is recorded”, the report added.

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