UPDATE: England vs India Manchester Test cancelled

[ShoonyaSifar]

What an irresponsible bunch of buffoons. They have young families traveling with them but have shown no respect to guidelines attending unapproved crowded events. England may have relaxed covid rules but these guys are intelligent enough (or maybe not) to read about rising cases. Embarassing to see the teams both in England and in Sri Lanka being so irresponsible. No lessons learnt from the IPL fiasco.

 

 

[New guy]

Just now, rkt.india said:

There were no rules to break.

BCCI had given strict instructions about avoiding crowded places. 

 

1) They needed ECBs permission to attend such events which they didnt. ECB said they didn't receive any requests 

 

2) Jay Shah had personally written to each team member and staff and asked them to avoid crowded places before the series considering they had IPL after this 

[rollingstoned]

1 minute ago, ShoonyaSifar said:

What an irresponsible bunch of buffoons. They have young families traveling with them but have shown no respect to guidelines attending unapproved crowded events. England may have relaxed covid rules but these guys are intelligent enough (or maybe not) to read about rising cases. Embarassing to see the teams both in England and in Sri Lanka being so irresponsible. No lessons learnt from the IPL fiasco.

 

 

they've been there for 3 months and attended everything from the football WC to Wimby. I guess by now they're not at that level of paranoia they might have been when they arrived in England.

[AuxiliA]

4 minutes ago, Gollum said:

Surely Kohli PR won't be able to spin this fiasco in his favor.

 

Surely this is the end of Kohli's captaincy in all formats. 

 

Surely Shastri needs to be fired right away. 

 

LOL, don't underestimate his Bollywood PR. They will portray them as 'patients' who need our love and affection. #GetWellSoon

 

Once IPL starts everything will be forgotten. 

[New guy]

1 minute ago, Sandeep99 said:

Does this mean we already won the series 

No, if test doesn't happen, it will be included next year in our white ball tour to england 

[Gollum]

2 minutes ago, Sandeep99 said:

Does this mean we already won the series 

 

[neel roy]

Tour to be cancelled as per latest reports!!!! Bcci wont risk 3000 crores.. so it ll be an one off test next year like the wtc.. and india will

be blown away without any match practice  

[New guy]

Just now, rollingstoned said:

they've been there for 3 months and attended everything from the football WC to Wimby. I guess by now they're not at that level of paranoia they might have been when they arrived in England.

BCCI was more worried about IPL being affected, what they do before series start is no concern as there was enough time to isolate (like pants case) and it didn't put test or IPL at risk. But once series started, its another story 

[rollingstoned]

it will be a logistical nightmare to arrange for a one off test next year. i know it is a matter of the ipl but they should find a way to complete it in the next few days imo, especially if no one tests +ve again.

[Sandeep99]

1 minute ago, Gollum said:

 

Just scrap the last test and play additional 3 ODIs then... we will have won the series and we good practice for 2023 against the strongest ODI team

[QuarantineTormentino]

What an absolute farce.. this is so embarrassing

[jalebi_bhai]

6 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

But did they have rules? There was no bubble.

No bio-secure bubble. There was a controlled bubble. 

[neel roy]

Bach gaya dus bahane if tour cancelled. injuries and covid keeps on giving rahane chances.. gods own child.. black belt holder

[AuxiliA]

7 minutes ago, New guy said:

What if IPL gets affected because of this stupidity?

 

It won't. People didn't get affected in IPL bio bubble. BCCI will go through the IPL even without our test players. 

[Gollum]

1 minute ago, neel roy said:

Tour to be cancelled as per latest reports!!!! Bcci wont risk 3000 crores.. so it ll be an one off test next year like the wtc.. and india will

be blown away without any match practice  

Yup, if it happens next year we'll have no momentum, no match practice, no mental edge, Stokes and Archer may be back while we may be without services of some of our best players. Likely to be WTC F repeat. 

 

Chance of a historic series win, now in tatters because of Kohli and Shastri. These 2 have been a net negative for Indian team, absolutely useless. 

[New guy]

5 minutes ago, AuxiliA said:

 

It won't. People didn't get affected in IPL bio bubble. BCCI will go through the IPL even without our test players. 

It takes 4-5 days for symptoms to show up. Say a player gets infected after 5 days. Then he gives it to another. Then that player mingles with his IPL team before he tests posutive. . It can be a  disaster 

 

Kohli, pant, bumrah, rohit, etc are all major star players for their team and IPL draw.  What will IPL be without them, even if it's only in initial matches 

Edited September 9, 2021 by New guy

[Lord]

3 minutes ago, Sandeep99 said:

Just scrap the last test and play additional 3 ODIs then... we will have won the series and we good practice for 2023 against the strongest ODI team

 

why scrap the Test.India can forfeit it if it wants.

[QuarantineTormentino]

This shouldn’t go unpunished, England should be awarded this last test. Let these idiots feel the WTC points table heat. Even that might not be enough. We haven’t managed to get out unscathed through any of our last three tours. This is quite frankly embarrassing at this point. I dread what will happen come the t20WC

[Lone Wolf]

9 minutes ago, rkt.india said:

But did they have rules? There was no bubble.

They have something called common sense..  Already BCCI has gone out of its way & allowed families with them. 

Look English players are not being allowed families in Australia for Ashes.  These a***holes take everything for granted. 

[Gollum]

Not looking good.