The ECB have confirmed that the cricket season has been postponed again until July 1 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Play was due to get underway in the County Championship this month, but like the rest of the sporting calendar, fell victim to the lockdown caused by Covid-19.
There is still hope that fixtures in both red-ball cricket and white-ball cricket will still go ahead though domestically, while international matches have now been scheduled from July until the end of September with the West Indies and India still set to visit.
ECB Chief Executive Officer Tom Harrison said: “Our role as a national governing body during a crisis of this scale requires us to carefully plan alongside cricket’s stakeholders and supporters to attempt to