Australia’s Covid restrictions put integrity of Ashes at stake, warns ECB

Talks ongoing regarding exemptions for players’ families‘These are reasonable requests,’ says ECB’s Tom Harrison

Tom Harrison, the chief executive of the England and Wales Cricket Board, has put further pressure on the Australian government to relax its strict quarantine rules in order to allow this winter’s Ashes to go ahead.

Several England players have indicated they may pull out of the tour if their families are forced into hard quarantine after arriving in the country, and Harrison insisted the integrity of the series was at stake unless the Australian authorities softened the nation’s hard-line stance.

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