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Cricketers and COVID: look over there! – Sydney Morning Herald
A hub in South Africa is deemed too much of a risk for Australia”s cricketers, but a hub in India is likely to get a tick.
You could see why an Australian player might hesitate to insert himself into a COVID-19 hot spot right now. It has parallels to 1996, when Australia forfeited a World Cup game in Colombo because a massive truck bomb had just exploded there, and with London during the 2005 Ashes, when two bombs killed dozens and Jason Gillespie contemplated bailing out with his young family.
You could see with his eyes. Cricketers represent Australia, but not as soldiers do. They are expected to put their bodies…
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