‘No coercing players into England tour’, says CWI chief ahead of biosecure series
Cricket West Indies chief executive officer Johnny Grave has said that West Indies players will not be persuaded or forced against their will to tour England for a three-Test series that is scheduled to take place in July.
“We have to be absolutely clear that it’s safe first and foremost. The ECB have got a long way to go to get UK government approval to be absolutely certain that biosecure cricket will work.”
“The players would be very much in a bubble,” Grave said. “We said to the ECB we’d want four weeks of preparation before the first Test. We’re probably looking at three back-to-back Test matches. It would be seven weeks of very much training at the ground, staying at the ground and very much being isolated within that hotel environment.”