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SLC CEO Ashely de Silva[/caption]
Amid speculation that the scheduled West Indies cricket tour would be either postponed entirely or played in only the short formats, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said on Friday (12) that now the two boards are trying to have the “full tour”.
“Yes. We are planning to have a full tour. But we have not finalised on the dates we are supposed to go. We are still having discussions with them (West Indies Cricket – WIC),” Ashley de Silva, CEO, SLC, told The Sunday Morning Sports on Friday.
The prospects of having a full series, rather than having a series without the scheduled two Tests, heightened after the entire squad passed another round of PCR Tests for Covid-19 on Thursday.
There was great fear that some members of the 35-player Sri Lanka squad for the West Indies tour could have been infected with the coronavirus after they had attended a wedding in Colombo two weeks earlier.
The following day of the wedding, Lahiru Thirimanne, one of the players who attended the wedding, and Head Coach Mickey Arthur tested positive prompting SLC to informally postpone the tour.
Now with the situation improving, it is likely that that entire series of two Tests and three each of ODIs and T20Is would be held at a single venue, most probably Antigua.
SLC CEO Ashely de Silva[/caption]
Amid speculation that the scheduled West Indies cricket tour would be either postponed entirely or played in only the short formats, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) said on Friday (12) that now the two boards are trying to have the “full tour”.
“Yes. We are planning to have a full tour. But we have not finalised on the dates we are supposed to go. We are still having discussions with them (West Indies Cricket – WIC),” Ashley de Silva, CEO, SLC, told The Sunday Morning Sports on Friday.
The prospects of having a full series, rather than having a series without the scheduled two Tests, heightened after the entire squad passed another round of PCR Tests for Covid-19 on Thursday.
There was great fear that some members of the 35-player Sri Lanka squad for the West Indies tour could have been infected with the coronavirus after they had attended a wedding in Colombo two weeks earlier.
The following day of the wedding, Lahiru Thirimanne, one of the players who attended the wedding, and Head Coach Mickey Arthur tested positive prompting SLC to informally postpone the tour.
Now with the situation improving, it is likely that that entire series of two Tests and three each of ODIs and T20Is would be held at a single venue, most probably Antigua.