CANBERRA (News Pulse) Cricket Australia (CA) on Friday announced the postponement of the Test match against Afghanistan and the three ODIs against New Zealand until the 2021-22 seasons. The matches had originally been scheduled for 2020-21; however, the complexity of scheduling international matches during the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the three boards agreeing to the need to postpone the matches.
Cricket Australia is confident that it will find suitable windows for each postponed match to be played within the current FTP period that concludes in 2023.\looks forward to working with our good friends at the Afghanistan Cricket Board and New Zealand Cricket to deliver the matches at a time when, hopefully, the restrictions brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have eased,” Hockley said in a statement.
“We all worked incredibly hard to make the series happen this summer, but the challenges around international travel and quarantine restrictions ultimately convinced all parties that the series would need to be played at a later date,” he added.
