According to a report in ESPNcricinfo, an email by Western Province informed the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) about their players using a nets facility adjoining a construction site near the ground on 3rd December.
Western Province authorities added that the site lied outside the bio-secure bubble and therefore, they won’t be liable for the health and safety of the England players.
England’s management said that they used the nets because of “unacceptable” facilities at Newlands
The ECB has hit back at these claims by saying that the need to use the off-limits nets only arose because the facilities provided to them were ‘unacceptable.’ They added that the England team’s pertinent authorities had secured the area for practicing. ECB told ESPNcricinfo:
The first ODI was postponed and a new schedule for the 3-match series was agreed upon by the two boards after one of Proteas’ players tested positive for the virus. However, the first match had to be called off again when 2 hotel staff tested positive a few hours before play began.
Complete testing of the touring England party ensued, and two of them were said to return ‘unconfirmed’ positive cases. The test results didn’t reach till the of the 2nd ODI on Monday, which was preliminarily postponed as well.
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