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The Hundred – the England and Wales Cricket Board’s fresh city-basically based tournament – has been postponed till 2021 thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
The 100-ball competition, involving eight groups in separate males’s and girls’s tournaments, used to be resulting from launch up on 17 July and stay on 15 August.
An England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) meeting on Wednesday concluded it used to be now not imaginable for The Hundred to be staged this one year.
“Obviously as of late’s resolution is tinged with disappointment but we carry out recognise the country is going via something extraordinary,” ECB chief govt Tom Harrison steered BBC Sport.
“All sectors of society are redeploying their thinking to how we attend the country procure out of this, slightly than fulfilling the ambitions we would occupy for our sure sports.
“In our case, the sacrifices we are making for the time being appear very exiguous in comparability to what’s occurring within the huge image.”
The ECB had previously extended the shutdown on cricket in England and Wales till on the least 1 July.
If and when the 2020 season does launch up, the nationwide governing body has already mentioned this might perhaps well perhaps give attention to turning in males’s and girls’s internationals, as well to domestic first-class and tiny-overs competitions, within the period between July and the stay of September.
On the opposite hand, it appears to be like seemingly the huge majority of cricket would want to be performed within the attend of closed doorways, contradicting the mentioned procedure of The Hundred in attracting a brand fresh audience to the sport.
The complexities of planning in a time of social distancing, shuttle restrictions that might perhaps well perhaps perchance doubtlessly occupy an stamp on avid gamers and coaches from distant places, and essential furloughing of workers across 20 host venues, additionally contributed to the resolution to avoid losing off.
Harrison added the procedure will seemingly be to snarl The Hundred as it used to be deliberate this one year, but said there are “choices” to be made on whether all avid gamers remain with the groups they had been drafted to.
Complications are perhaps to advance attend with distant places avid gamers who had been on hand in 2020 but might perhaps well perhaps perchance now not be next one year, and the ECB is working with the Professional Cricketers’ Association and various key stakeholders with regards to player different and retention for 2021.
The 18 first-class counties had been resulting from every receive £1.3m from The Hundred, money which the ECB said in March had begun to be paid.
Gamers inquisitive about the tournament had been additionally insist to build up to £125,000, with equal prize money for girls and males.
In regards to what counties and avid gamers will not straight away procure, Harrison said “discussions are under arrangement”.
“The contracts look cases love this, clearly now not the exact insist but we carry out occupy the flexibility to occupy these discussions via what’s written down within the contracts,” he said.
“We occupy got a huge exercise across this total summer about how we sort out the insist in cricket. It’s now not tiny to The Hundred.
“We’re doing all the pieces we are able to to again the lights on in counties, who in a huge range of examples are under rigidity anyway.”
When it comes to the impact on the girls’s sport – the Twenty20 Kia Unparalleled League used to be scrapped to invent arrangement for The Hundred – Harrison added: “There is just not this form of thing as a dilution on our commitment to ladies’s cricket.
“We occupy got a exact opportunity to invent on the World Cup success in 2017 and the Kia Unparalleled League’s success. None of that’s going to swap with the postponement of the Hundred.”
Harrison has previously spoke of the “very essential monetary insist” the sport in England and Wales is coping with thanks to the coronavirus pandemic.
Aloof, he again reiterated his give a hold to for The Hundred, pointing out this might perhaps well perhaps be a “profit-making endeavor”.
“In no arrangement, within the idea of the ECB board or most participants across the sport, does it dilute the impact or importance of it,” he said.
“Here’s a competition that’s designed now not simplest to change into a industrial powerhouse but grow the audience of cricket across the country for kids, for various communities and invent on what now we occupy with cricket in this country.”
More than 180,000 tickets had been sold for matches scheduled in 2020, all of that might perhaps well perhaps perchance additionally unbiased also be refunded. Anybody who sold tickets and these signed up to the competition’s web procedure will seemingly be notified of how one can pick tickets for 2021.
England internationals Joe Root and Moeen Ali every said on Wednesday suspending this one year’s competition might perhaps well perhaps perchance be the lawful ingredient to carry out.
Now, a no doubt vital one year in 2021 for English cricket takes on even elevated significance.
The Hundred will seemingly be launched within the same dwelling summer as a high-profile Test sequence against India, with a T20 World Cup in India within the autumn adopted by a uncover to assemble the Ashes in Australia.
England might perhaps well perhaps perchance additionally additionally be inquisitive about the final of the World Test Championship, which is currently resulting from be held at Lord’s in June 2021.
‘It wouldn’t occupy been lawful to play within the attend of closed doorways’
Evaluation by Jonathan Agnew, BBC cricket correspondent
It’s execrable recordsdata, but it no doubt’s now not surprising.
The ECB has pinned an awful lot of hope and money on The Hundred and it upright would not seem like the form of competition you might perhaps well perchance perchance play within the attend of closed doorways. It goes against the total idea of the tournament.
The board sees this tournament as being very vital in connecting to a brand fresh audience to be succesful to lock them out would now not invent a huge range of sense.
The girls’s sport has been slightly hit by this resulting from their T20 tournament used to be cancelled in portray to procure them inquisitive about The Hundred.
Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India are coming to England next one year – India to play five Checks.
That might perhaps well perhaps perchance additionally very properly be a huge range of cricket and might perhaps well perhaps perchance additionally unbiased perchance distract the eye of the very participants The Hundred used to be supposed to be no doubt attracting.