Ashely Giles, director of England men’s cricket, remains optimistic that some international cricket will be played this summer and says England’s players will be ready to resume action when, or if, they are required.
The ECB have already announced that no cricket will take place until at least May 28 and Giles thinks that date is likely to be extended into June at the earliest. England are supposed to be hosting West Indies in a three Test series at the start of June and then Australia, Pakistan and Ireland in various red and white-ball rubbers after that.
The ECB are working on a number of scenarios for when the season might start with a view to pushing back the international series farther into the summer in order to get as much of the planned cricket in. “That’s what we’re looking at right now and we’re working with the other boards around the world on seeing if that is possible,” Giles said.
“We have really good relations with these boards and we’re doing whatever we can to look at scenarios where we can push our cricket back which gives us the best chance of playing as much international cricket as possible.
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“We all understand that in a period like this we have to be as flexible as we can. Nothing is going to be ideal. Preparation for players, rest between matches, cross over of formats, right now it is a blank sheet of paper because it has to be, we have to adapt.
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“The priority is doing what we are told to be doing and a lot of what we hear in the news is naturally negative and is bad news. We have to try and remain positive as well. I am positive we will get some cricket in later in the summer. Exactly what that will look like I don’t know, but we have to be when we are planning otherwise it becomes ever decreasing circles and we just get more and more down on the situation.
“Our jobs are perhaps to look at those scenarios positively because I do think when it is time, sport will have a big role to play in bringing the country back to its feet I really do. Our teams have a big role in that.”
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