BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Cricket West Indies chief executive, Johnny Grave, says he is “increasingly confident” the Test tour of England will come off, noting that a final decision will likely be made at Thursday’s meeting of CWI’s board.
In the clearest hint yet the three-Test series will go ahead in July amidst the serious challenges posed by the novel coronavirus pandemic, Grave said the England and Wales Cricket Board now believed they had a “robust and safe plan” to ensure the series came off successfully.
If the tour has to take place, by the start of June we would need to have the [CWI] board approval and support by then in order to get the charter flight logistics in place and select the players.”
He continued: “The players would be in a very, very secure [and] very, very isolated environment for the first two weeks in quarantine, and then when they move into the biosecure Test venues everyone that they come into contact [with] would be in a restricted bubble, therefore not able to leave, and all of them would have been tested prior to coming into that environment and would continue to undergo random testing whilst they are there.”
“So yes, good progress is being made and we are getting closer to that final plan for our board to effectively sign off on the tour and ask the selectors to choose the squad and the players to confirm their participation.”
