…two games cancelled
BASSETERRE, St. Kitts - WITH the ICC Under-19 Cricket World Cup rounding into its final leg, more cases of COVID-19 were discovered within the tournament depleting one team, thus forcing the cancellation of two games.
The Canadian Under-19 team has reported nine cases of the virus within its line-up and was been forced to cancel their two remaining encounters as they were unable to field a complete team for their encounters.
According to the International Cricket Council media division, “Two Plate competition matches at the ICC Under 19 Men’s Cricket World Cup have been cancelled after nine Canada players tested positive for COVID-19.”
They did not identify the players who tested positive in Trinidad and Tobago, only noting that they “will now undertake a period of isolation where their welfare will be monitored by the event medical team”.
Because of this, the organisers were forced to cancel their games scheduled for today (Jan. 29) and tomorrow.
“As a consequence, the Canadian team has insufficient available players to be able to take any further part in the event. Canada’s plate play-off semi final with Scotland on 29 January is cancelled and in accordance with the playing conditions Scotland will progress to the 13th/14th play-off as a result of having a better net-run-rate than Canada from all matches played in the event. The 15th/16th play-off that would have featured Canada against either Uganda or PNG will also not take place,” ICC said in a media statement
ICC Head of Events, Chris Tetley said: “We are incredibly disappointed to have to cancel two ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup games due to COVID-19 at this stage of the event. We were expecting to see some positive cases throughout the event and to date these have been managed in accordance with our biosafety plan without impacting on fixtures. However with so many players from the Canadian team testing positive it will not be possible to stage these games.
“The players are now self-isolating and will receive full support from the event medical team under the guidance of the Bio-Safety Advisory Group.”
