Matches limited to 30 people to start from SaturdayBatsmen must sanitise their bats once dismissedAnd: play. Four months on from what looked like the mothballing of an entire English summer, the English and Wales
Cricket Board has given the go-ahead for club and amateur cricket to start. Under the ECB’s guidance, which will be published on Thursday, 11-a-side cricket can be played from Saturday within carefully drafted guidelines.
The news will be received with huge enthusiasm by amateur players around the country. More importantly there is now a two-month window for cricket clubs to claw back some of the losses of the first half of the summer, a financial hit that, despite the grants on offer, left some fearing for their futures.