COLOMBO: The Asia Cup has been postponed for a second year after the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) said on Sunday there was no room on the calendar to host the rescheduled tournament.
The 2020 edition was postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic but the ACC said a packed Future Tours Programme (FTP) made it impossible to hold it this year and it would be held in 2023 instead.
England are set to host Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India in various formats between June and September while the ICC Twenty20 World Cup is scheduled to take place in India in October-November.
“The board has accordingly considered the matter very carefully and determined that the only way ahead would be to postpone the event,” the ACC said in a statement.
Daily Times
May 12, 2021
LONDON: England’s centrally contracted players are unlikely to be available for the completion of the Indian Premier League (IPL) wherever and whenever it is rescheduled. While the England management were happy to allow up to a dozen English players to miss the Test series against New Zealand at the start of June due to their involvement in the IPL, any rescheduling of the event is likely to clash with series in the Future Tours Programme (FTP). And that, according to England men’s director of cricket, Ashley Giles, means they will be viewed differently. The IPL was postponed last week due to the rising number of Covid-19 cases in India. With BCCI president Sourav Ganguly having accepted the competition cannot be completed in India this year, various dates and venues have been mooted. Those include the second half of September, before the T20 World Cup, and from mid-November, after it.
Ashley Giles, the managing director of England men team, had hinted that Three Lions players might not be available for the remainder of this edition of the
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England players to skip remainder of IPL: ECB
By IANS| Published: 11th May 2021 5:50 am IST
London, May 11 : Even as the Indian cricket board hopes to complete remainder of the Indian Premier League (IPL), possibly at an overseas destination, the English board has put its foot down in favour of international cricket, ruling out the possibility of English cricketers playing in the league.
“We’re planning on the involvement of England players in England matches. We’ve got a full FTP schedule. So if those tours to Pakistan and Bangladesh [in September and October] are going ahead, I’d expect the players to be there,” England men’s director of cricket Ashley Giles told British media here.