Grassroots cricket can't but resumeLeisure cricket isn't but protected to play due to points surrounding "communal teas and dres
Leisure cricket isn’t but protected to play due to points surrounding “communal teas and dressing rooms”, says Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
Final month, Johnson mentioned grassroots cricket couldn’t return as a result of the ball is a “pure vector of illness”.
That got here regardless of permitting different sports activities like tennis and basketball, to renew following the coronavirus lockdown.
Talking on LBC Radio on Friday, Johnson mentioned the chance is “not a lot the ball”.
“There are causes. These debates have gone spherical and spherical,” he mentioned.
“There are numerous different issues. The longer reply which I feel in all probability [chief medical officer] Chris Whitty would give, if he have been right here, about cricket – the chance isn’t a lot the ball, though which may be an element.
“It is the teas, it is the altering rooms and so forth and so forth. There are different elements concerned that generate proximity which you won’t get in a sport of tennis.”
Former England captain Michael Vaughan mentioned Johnson’s clarification was “utter rubbish”.
“You do not NEED dressing rooms. You do not want TEA @BorisJohnson,” he mentioned on Twitter.
“Give the leisure sport the inexperienced gentle and cease ruining the way forward for many small golf equipment and gamers.”
In an announcement, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) mentioned the dangers of publicity to coronavirus have been “very low” whereas enjoying cricket.
“The ECB believes that cricket is a non-contact sport, with very low dangers of publicity, and that it may be performed as safely as many different actions being at the moment permitted,” the governing physique mentioned.
“The detailed submission we now have shared with the Division for Digital, Tradition, Media and Sport contains recommendation on how we are able to stage cricket safely and mitigate all potential dangers.
“We imagine this recommendation – allied with strict hygiene measures – means leisure cricket needs to be considered as protected by the UK authorities, which might be welcome information to our nation’s leisure cricketers.”