Match referee David Boon has examined optimistic for COVID-19 and won’t be accessible for the fourth Ashes take a look at in Sydney from Jan. 5, Cricket Australia stated.
Boon, who’s asymptomatic and totally vaccinated, would get replaced by Steve Bernard, a New South Wales-based member of the worldwide panel of referees, CA added.
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Boon will stay in Melbourne, the place he’ll full 10 days quarantine, and is predicted to be accessible for the fifth take a look at between Australia and England in Hobart, which begins on Jan. 14.
Amid a rising variety of infections in Australia, Thursday’s Huge Bash assembly between Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Stars has been postponed after a member of the Stars help workers returned a optimistic take a look at.