Due to issues related to COVID-19, the ODI series between the United States and Ireland has been cancelled. Two support staff of the Irish team and partners of several players tested positive. Two of the Irish players are considered close contacts.

Ireland will play a series with the West Indies, which is scheduled to depart from Florida to Kingston, Jamaica on December 31. However, the two support staff who tested positive will stay in Florida to complete the quarantine period.

Cricbuzz understands that the US cricket team initially budgeted close to $350,000 for this tournament, which is not part of ICC’s future tour plans. As a strategic move, the short-funded board used up part of the 2022 budget to make the series a reality. According to U.S. cricket insiders, the series is seen as the perfect foil for the “full membership” national tour in the United States, while Ireland sees it as a way to adapt to the environment by playing some cricket before disembarking to the Caribbean coast. Valuable opportunity. It is reported that the cost of overtime has soared by nearly half a million U.S. dollars.

Obviously, after sparing no effort to host the series with Ireland, the decision to cancel the entire series 48 hours before the start of the last ODI may not be implemented well in some parts of the American Cricket Brotherhood. It must be noted that none of the Irish players tested positive, only a few support staff and a few players’ partners tested positive. On the other hand, the entire US team shared an indoor locker room with a player who was positive after the second T20I and was forced to isolate until the result was negative.

After returning negative results, the US team practiced together for the remaining two ODIs within 48 hours. It’s hard to understand why the same rules are used to resolve the latest outbreak of Covid within the Irish tour group. After testing the team on the morning of the game 48 hours before the announcement time, it would be more pragmatic to wait a while before answering the last ODI call. However, it would be naive to not consider Ireland’s desire to continue participating in the series damaged by the new crown virus outbreak, so as not to have further doubts about the ODI Premier League series in the West Indies.

“This decision is difficult to make, but from the perspective of the health and safety of the players and staff, it is clearly the correct result. Although there were no positive Covid results among Irish players, two of our support staff tested positive. Some travel partners and family members also tested positive. This means that the two players in our team are considered’close contacts’ and have been in quarantine while undergoing further testing and monitoring.” Irish Cricket High Performance director Richard Holdsworth (Richard Holdsworth) said in the media that it was released.

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