Two years into cricket’s reckoning with COVID-19, not even India, England and Australia have total control over their spheres of influence any more. cricket
“I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread.”The Lord of the Rings
When the first leg was interrupted by a positive test result for a West Indian team staffer, there was plenty of discussion among Australian players and team management about whether the second leg to Dhaka would be fulfilled. It is true that the BCCI had flagged a reluctance to go through with a full five-Test schedule in England and push up so close to the rest of the IPL. But the inability of its leaders Sourav Ganguly and Jay Shah to broker a last-moment solution provided cold sweats for cricket administrators all over the globe.and chair Earl Eddings. They are grappling with how to ensure England’s tourists get enough concessions to allow a strong team to tour for the Ashes summer.
Fans pass the time after the fifth and final Test between England and India was cancelled last minute.Many have pointed the finger at India’s relaxed interpretation of these conditions. Even so, Harrison’s reported presence at Ravi Shastri’s much-criticised book launch rather underlined how both boards had tried to move on from COVID avoidance to COVID management.
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