England’s white-ball captain Eoin Morgan heaped praise on the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) for their “outstanding job” after the successful completion of its home summer inside the bio-secure 'bubbles' amid the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic.
ECB made huge efforts in bringing back international cricket following the Coronavirus-forced shut down in March 2020 and Morgan said the way England managed to successfully host the matches is a blueprint for other countries to stage matches amid the COVID-19 pandemic across the globe.
After the final ODI against Australia, Morgan told reporters: “From where we were five months ago to have had a full set of international fixtures and to have cricket back on the TV is huge for the game.”
The World Cup-winning skipper continued, “I think we've pioneered and mapped out exactly how to get cricket back on. Given we've had no positive cases within the bubble, I think it's a very good example and one every team around the world will look at. Whether they can model it exactly like that might be a bit more challenging but I think the ECB has done an outstanding job.”
England returned to cricketing action following the COVID-19 forced shutdown with a Test series against the West Indies in July followed by the number of matches across all three formats against Ireland, Pakistan, and Australia at the bio-secure bubble and empty stadiums.
Morgan signed off by saying, “If there was another summer of a bio-secure bubble we would probably have to look at guys spending more time outside of it or families being allowed to come in.”
(With Reuters Inputs)
