{"id":27124,"date":"2020-06-09T13:15:19","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kashmir.today\/west-indian-cricketers-depart-for-3-test-tour-of-england\/"},"modified":"2020-06-09T13:15:19","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T07:45:19","slug":"west-indian-cricketers-depart-for-3-test-tour-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/?p=27124","title":{"rendered":"West Indian cricketers depart for 3-test tour of England"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11546036_West-Indian-cricketers-depart-for-3-test-tour-of-England.html\">PTI<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/ptinews.com\/news\/11546036_West-Indian-cricketers-depart-for-3-test-tour-of-England.html\">AP<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>St<\/strong> <strong>John&#8217;s (Antigua):<\/strong>\u00a0The West Indies cricket team departed from Antigua for a three-test tour of England with the entire touring party based in the Caribbean having returned negative tests to COVID-19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier on Monday, two planes collected players from various islands in the West Indies and they joined a private charter which is due to arrive in Manchester on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Indies Cricket said in a statement Monday that on arrival at Old Trafford in Manchester, the entire touring party will be quarantined and tested again for COVID-19 as they begin the seven-week tour where they will live, train and play in a &#8220;bio-secure&#8221; environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those protocols will restrict movement in and out of the venues, so a group of reserve players will travel to train and help prepare the test squad and ensure replacements are available in case of injury.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There will be no spectators allowed at the three tests which are being played over just 21 days starting July 8 in Southampton and at Old Trafford from July 16-20 and again from July 24-28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The venues were chosen because they had hotels attached or nearby and could be turned into bio-secure environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The original tour was scheduled for May and June but was postponed due to coronavirus restrictions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This is a huge step forward in cricket and in sports in general as we travel over to England for this series,&#8221; captain Jason Holder said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;A lot has gone into the preparations for what will be a new phase in the game.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Indies test squad: Jason Holder (captain), Jermaine Blackwood, Nkrumah Bonner, Kraigg Brathwaite, Shamarh Brooks, John Campbell, Roston Chase, Rahkeem Cornwall, Shane Dowrich, Chemar Holder, Shai Hope, Alzarri Joseph, Raymon Reifer and Kemar Roach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Reserve Players: Sunil Ambris, Joshua DaSilva, Shannon Gabriel, Keon Harding, Kyle Mayers, Preston McSween, Marquino Mindley, Shayne Moseley, Anderson Phillip, Oshane Thomas and Jomel Warrican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PTI | AP St John&#8217;s (Antigua):\u00a0The West Indies cricket team departed from Antigua for a three-test tour of England with the entire touring party based in the Caribbean having returned negative tests to COVID-19. Earlier on Monday, two planes collected players from various islands in the West Indies and they joined a private charter which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kashmir.watch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}