| Archer out of 2nd Test on 21:54 - Jul 16 with 431 views | rkc123 |
It seems like an odd situation as a bit more comes out, on social media (admittedly not a reliable source) the account seems to be that he stopped at home after leaving Southampton on his way up to Manchester, dropped off and picked up a few bits and interacted with a housemate.
I get if this is against what the team agreed then some action might need to be taken, but given that all players had to stop at service stations on the way up to Manchester it seems like an unnecessary heavy handed approach from Giles to say the breach could have been a disaster and cost the ECB tens of millions, surely no more of a risk than any of the other stops the players had to make on route? Given the steps taken to ensure the 'bio-secure bubble', the decision not to just chuck the whole team on a coach and keep them together seems absolutely baffling. |  | |  |
| Archer out of 2nd Test on 23:02 - Jul 16 with 392 views | stonojnr |
| Archer out of 2nd Test on 21:54 - Jul 16 by rkc123 |
It seems like an odd situation as a bit more comes out, on social media (admittedly not a reliable source) the account seems to be that he stopped at home after leaving Southampton on his way up to Manchester, dropped off and picked up a few bits and interacted with a housemate.
I get if this is against what the team agreed then some action might need to be taken, but given that all players had to stop at service stations on the way up to Manchester it seems like an unnecessary heavy handed approach from Giles to say the breach could have been a disaster and cost the ECB tens of millions, surely no more of a risk than any of the other stops the players had to make on route? Given the steps taken to ensure the 'bio-secure bubble', the decision not to just chuck the whole team on a coach and keep them together seems absolutely baffling. |
well apparently theyve said using a bus was considered a higher risk because the players would have spent longer together breathing the same air...though I doubt the West Indies players all drove themselves to Manchester. I suspect they were trying to treat the players like adults after having been in an imposed confinement and giving them a bit of freedom by themselves, hence letting them drive seperately, they were supposed to meet up at a planned lunch stop,but whether it was just turn up here there will be lunch provided and we will fill your car with fuel and you can do what you need to do, and dont stop anywhere else who knows Im sure it will come out in a biography in a few years.
But apparently no-one noticed or knew Archer had done anything until he happened to mention it in passing to one of the fitness/training/coach team, after Archer had already trained with the whole team that day
So had Archer met someone who had Covid 19, picked it up himself, he's just infected the whole team and potentially the whole test series against the West Indies collapses in on itself.
and the tens of millions cost is the ECB had promised a bio secure environment for travelling cricket teams, got the governments approval,the West Indies are here because of that, Pakistan have agreed to play games on that basis, Australia are apparently close to announcing some games as well.
If the ECB cant actually deliver that bio secure environment because one of their players decides they need to pop home because he feels like it, and only tells them after he's just trained with the whole team, yes thats quite a problem and puts all that money/revenue/Sky income/government support from all those games at risk.
so is Giles being heavy handed, no not at all,if anything they havent actually done anything yet and the England disciplinary process will probably just be a rap on the knuckles you missed a match that will do,as its the bio secure environment rules that say if you leave the "bubble" youve got to spend 5 days in self isolation and pass two tests, exactly as Phil Simmons the West Indian team coach who left the "bubble" to attend his father in laws funeral had done, the difference is Phil asked for permission to do that first and it was granted.
how would the West Indies feel if after finding out a player had broken the bubble rules,not only didnt then submit to that self isolation, but played in the match, theyve been couped up at Old Trafford not allowed out at all since they arrived in this country, playing at Southampton was the first time theyve been allowed anywhere except Old Trafford and we shouldnt forget that. | | | |
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