WBBL given permission to proceed at Hobart without spectators

HOBART: Cricket Australia (CA) promised the Tasmanian government on Saturday that they will enhance the 'biosecurity precautions' in order to ensure the Women's Big Bash League's (WBBL) weekend matches continue unhindered following a snap three-day lockdown being announced in the state owing to a Covid-19 incident.

The WBBL inaugural week was thrown into turmoil on Friday after the Tasmanian government put the state under lockdown and the fate of four WBBL-07 games, which were scheduled to be played at the Blundstone Arena in Hobart across Saturday and Sunday, became uncertain.

However, following negotiation between the state government and CA, the matches will proceed with more stringent biosecure precautions and no spectators.

The three-day snap lockdown was imposed after a Covid-positive man "who had entered the state from New South Wales escaped hotel quarantine in Hobart and was later located at a residence in the city's northern suburbs", cricket.com.au reported. IANS