The draft for Sri Lanka’s upcoming Premier League tournament has been postponed, the cricket board mentioned Thursday, because the island nation battles to comprise its biggest-ever coronavirus outbreak. Main internationals together with Chris Gayle, Darren Sammy, Darren Bravo, Shahid Afridi and Shakib Al Hasan had been up for grabs at a Friday ceremony forward of the Twenty20 competition. However with greater than 1,000 staff at one manufacturing facility close to the capital Colombo testing optimistic in simply 72 hours this week, the federal government has locked down some areas and banned public gatherings.
“The ‘Participant Draft’ won’t go forward as deliberate, owing to the present well being state of affairs,” governing physique Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) mentioned in an announcement.
The auction-style occasion was rescheduled to October 19, and SLC added that it will proceed to “intently monitor the well being state of affairs” over the subsequent few days.
The 23-match occasion has already been rescheduled twice. It was on account of kick off in August however was moved to November 14 after which November 21.
Sri Lanka has reported nearly four,500 coronavirus infections and 13 associated deaths thus far.
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The choice comes simply over every week after Bangladesh referred to as off its Take a look at collection in Sri Lanka, saying the hosts’ virus restrictions had been too onerous.
The Assessments in October-November had been meant to mark the 2 nations’ return to worldwide cricket after a months-long lockdown halted skilled sports activities worldwide.
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