Australia’s Test tour of South Africa has been postponed due to the prevailing coronavirus pandemic, Cricket Australia (CA) confirmed on February 2 (Tuesday). Incidentally, South Africa is battling a second wave of COVID-19 and a new variant of the virus.
The Aussies were scheduled to play a three-match Test series later this month. However, CA’s interim chief executive Nick Hockley stated that travelling to the country will pose an unacceptable risk to the players. As a result, Australia bow out of the inaugural edition of the ICC World Test Championship.
Australia pull out of South Africa series
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“Following extensive due diligence with medical experts, it has become clear that travelling from Australia to South Africa at this current time poses an unacceptable level of health and safety risk to our players, support staff and the community,” Hockley said in a statement.
“We acknowledge the significant amount of work by CSA in planning for the tour, during which we made it clear that CA was prepared to take on additional cost and effort to make the series happen.
“This decision has not been made lightly and we are extremely disappointed, especially given the importance of continuing international cricket at this time, our valued relationship with CSA, and our aspirations to compete in the inaugural ICC World Test Championship,” the statement added.
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