The Bob Willis Trophy is altering the County Championship by means of the virus-shortened season.© AFP
An English county cricket match between Gloucestershire and Northamptonshire was abandoned on Sunday, after a non-playing member of Northamptonshire’s squad examined constructive for coronavirus. The players took lunch on the anticipated time of 12.30 pm (1130 GMT) nevertheless an unexplained delay to the restart was launched, and it took an hour until the umpires, captains and ground supervisor had been seen on the sector. Umpire Jeremy Lloyds lifted a stump to counsel the highest of the Bob Willis Trophy match, and an announcement from every counties confirmed the abandonment.
“Inside the pursuits of participant welfare, it has been agreed between Gloucestershire, Northamptonshire and the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) that the Bob Willis Trophy match, for the time being being carried out on the Bristol County Flooring, has been abandoned,” it said.
“Merely sooner than lunch of the first session of play, it bought right here to mild {{that a}} member of the Northamptonshire having fun with squad has examined constructive for Covid-19.”
“Although the participant was not part of the group that travelled with the squad to Bristol (and has been self-isolating at dwelling), extra members of the Northamptonshire squad have been in contact with the participant inside 48 hours of the participant rising Covid-19 indicators.”
The ECB said in a separate assertion that “the effectively being and safety of the players, staff and officers is the first priority of the ECB and first-class counties”.
Home side Gloucestershire had been struggling at 66-6 of their first innings at Bristol, on day one in every of many fixture. The match was deemed a draw.
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The Bob Willis Trophy, comprising four-day first-class matches, is altering the County Championship by means of the virus-shortened season.
The England group, for the time being in Twenty20 movement in direction of Australia, look set to complete their worldwide season, with all matches happening behind closed doorways.
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