Cricket Australia Postpones Afghanistan Check, ODI Sequence In opposition to New Zealand Till 2021-22 Season

Cricket Australia (CA) on Friday introduced the postponement of the Check match in opposition to Afghanistan and the three ODIs in opposition to New Zealand till the 2021-22 season. The matches had initially been scheduled for 2020-21, nevertheless, the complexity of scheduling worldwide matches through the coronavirus pandemic has resulted within the three boards agreeing to the necessity to postpone the matches.

CA is assured that it’ll discover appropriate home windows for every postponed match to be performed throughout the present FTP interval that concludes in 2023.

Australia will host India for four Tests, three ODIs, and three T20I this summer in a collection that may captivate audiences round Australia and throughout the globe.

Nick Hockley, CA’s Interim CEO, mentioned they look ahead to enjoying with Afghanistan and New Zealand within the close to future.

“Cricket Australia appears to be like ahead to working with our good associates on the Afghanistan Cricket Board and New Zealand Cricket to ship the matches at a time when, hopefully, the restrictions introduced on by the COVID-19 pandemic have eased,” Hockley mentioned in an announcement.

“All of us labored extremely exhausting to make the collection occur this summer time, however the challenges round worldwide journey and quarantine restrictions finally satisfied all events that the collection would must be performed at a later date,” he added.

Hockley believes that the competition in opposition to the Indian workforce shall be “unimaginable” throughout all three codecs.

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“CA appears to be like ahead to welcoming the Indian males’s workforce for a full schedule of matches this summer time in what guarantees to be an unimaginable contest throughout all three codecs.

“CA would additionally wish to take this chance to thank our great companions for his or her understanding and assist as we’ve got navigated the complexities of internet hosting worldwide sport throughout a pandemic to ship an exhilarating summer time throughout males’s and ladies’s cricket at a global and home stage.”