Covid threat looms large on cricket series

England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) chief executive, Tom Harrison has said that cricket will have to learn to live with the Covid-19 virus or else it risks compromising on the quality of life of players, who have been forced to live in bio-secure environments for months.

England cricket has been hit by a spate of Covid-19 cases where the entire first team and its supports staff had to self-isolate before the start of the ODI series against Pakistan recently and County side Kent too had to field a second side after a positive case in their camp.

With The Hundred scheduled to start on July 21, a lot more precautions have been put in place to ensure the tournament doesn’t get disrupted by the pandemic.

We want people feeling good about going out and playing in whatever tournament they’re playing in, whether that’s The Hundred, whether that’s a Test series against India, whether that is county cricket and the RL50, Harrison was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo. ‘We want people to be feeling like their life is delivering for them, both at home and as professional cricketers, men and women. We don’t want to be closeting players in such a place where they feel like the only role they play in their life is to go out and bat and bowl for whatever team they’re playing,’ added Harrison.v

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