While there is still some doubt surrounding the staging of this year’s domestic cricket season, officials are now hopeful to get the ball rolling.This reversal comes after the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) met with Minister of Sports Dwight Sutherland and other ministry officials over the weekend. This meeting was a direct response to the BCA’s announcement on Friday that they had abandoned plans for the season out of an abundance of caution because of health and safety concerns connected to the COVID-19 pandemic.On Friday, cricket’s local governing body stated that the continued detection of COVID-19 cases in Barbados on a daily basis; the spike in new COVID-19 cases which occurred at the beginning of July, peaking on July 11, which has not yet been brought under control; and the detection of the highly infectious Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus in the island; coupled with the current government directive which prohibits the presence of spectators at sporting events, were among the reasons for the cancellation.
