Cricket Australia (CA) on Tuesday confirmed the postponement of the lads’s T20I collection in opposition to the West Indies which was slated to be performed in October this yr. Cricket Australia and the West Indies Cricket Board agreed to postpone the T20Is initially scheduled for Queensland in October. The matches have been scheduled to be performed at Townsville, Cairns and the Gold Coast on October four, 6 and 9, respectively. These matches have been to function warm-ups for the ICC T20 World Cup however the event had already been postponed as a result of coronavirus pandemic.
“In gentle of this improvement, and given the choice to host the warm-up three-match T20 collection in opposition to the West Indies to coincide with the rescheduled T20 World Cup in Australia (which is able to happen in both 2021 or 2022), it has been agreed to postpone the matches,” CA mentioned in an official assertion.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) had confirmed earlier that the T20 World Cup wouldn’t be going forward this yr. Australia will more than likely play a limited-over collection comprising of three ODIs and three T20Is in opposition to England in September.
Alternatively, the West Indies just lately performed a three-match Take a look at collection in opposition to England in a bio-secure setting.
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Cricket Australia revealed a full worldwide summer time schedule in late Could with the caveat that collection could also be postponed as a result of ongoing uncertainty created by the pandemic.
The ODI collection between Australia and Zimbabwe, which was scheduled to begin on Sunday, has already been postponed.
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