Australian Test skipper Tim Paine confirmed on Friday that a meeting had indeed taken place between embattled coach Justin Langer and the top Cricket Australia (CA) management to iron out differences in the team before CA CEO Nick Hockley .
Test skipper Tim Paine has backed Justin Langer to continue after some ‘tough and robust conversations’ with Cricket Australia and is now calling on his teammates to rally around the under-pressure coach
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Cricket’s West Indian and Bangladeshi custodians exhaled when Australia’s ODI series in the Caribbean was cleared to conclude, after further investigations to clarify the level of risk created by a single positive COVID-19 case among the home side’s support staff.
Though there had not been a single positive case recorded among any of the further 152 COVID-19 tests conducted in the wake of the lone positive, which had dramatically curtailed the start of the second ODI on Thursday in Barbados, Cricket Australia had sought further information about how the case may have emerged.
While these uncertainties remained, it was possible that both the West Indies series and the subsequent tour of Bangladesh may have been called off due to isolation requirements for either positive cases or close contacts. The Australian side was never likely to leave any such cases behind before flying to Bangladesh.
Australia-Windies 2nd ODI to resume on Saturday
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24 Jul 2021, 12:37 GMT+10
Bridgetown [Barbados], July 24 (ANI): Following meetings between Cricket West Indies (CWI) and Cricket Australia (CA) on Friday evening, after earlier discussions with the Barbados Cricket Association (BCA) and the Government of Barbados medical officials, CWI has announced that the three-match ODI series will resume later today and conclude on Monday.
The second ODI was suspended on Thursday and will now continue later today, with Australia having won the toss and elected to bat at Kensington Oval. We are happy to be able to announce the restart of the CG Insurance ODI series at Kensington Oval tomorrow. We want to thank our counterparts at CA for their co-operation in this matter as we look to get the games going again. Special thanks to our CEO Johnny Grave, Chairman of Cricket Australia, Earl Eddings, his CEO Nick Hockley along with our respective medical and operations teams. I appreciate the cru