English Cricket Chiefs Confident About Ashes Going Ahead Despite COVID Restrictions in Australia

English cricket leaders are "very confident" the upcoming Ashes series will go forward as deliberate regardless of ongoing negotiations over COVID-related journey restrictions.

England's gamers are involved about the potential of households being unable to hitch them on the journey given Australia's tight border controls, in addition to the prospect of prolonged quarantines and restrictive bubble environments.

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Talks involving the Professional Cricketers' Association have been ongoing for a while and whereas Tom Harrison, chief government of the England and Wales Cricket Board, acknowledged on Thursday there are many issues earlier than a closing inexperienced gentle might be given, he instructed the mandatory exemptions can be attained.

"All the right conversations are happening at government level in Australia, and we will be using our own diplomatic channels in the UK to ensure that the view of the players and the ECB (is heard)," Harrison mentioned at Lord's in the course of the second take a look at between England and India.

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"This is not players asking for anything unreasonable, these are very reasonable requests that we are asking the Australian government to give some leniency, frankly.

"It's going to be necessary for us to make sure that we may give consolation to gamers that their households are going to have the ability to be in Australia and that these circumstances in which they're quarantined will probably be affordable, enabling the gamers to be at their greatest in that Test series," he continued.

"It's a dialog that is going to happen over the following few weeks, however I'm very assured we are going to get to a spot the place we will fulfill our obligations to tour."

Harrison has played down speculation the Ashes could be postponed by a year to allow England fans to attend. He also cannot see England players sitting out the tour if loved ones were not permitted to travel.

"The Ashes is so necessary to world cricket, very similar to an England-India series, however much more so in sure elements of the world and for world cricket followers," he said.

"We by no means need to compromise the integrity of the series for any motive. Cricket Australia understands this, simply in addition to we do.

"The issue at the moment," he continued, "is the process that we need to go through to get the assurances that we need to be comfortable, that our players can get on the plane to Australia and feel confident that they can be at their best and they can perform at their best, without having to cope with the mental weight of being massively concerned about the conditions."

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