However, Mr Johnson last week quashed hopes that club cricket could resume from July 4, describing the ball as a “vector for the disease”. Last night Prof Heneghan questioned the science ...

managing director at British Cricket Balls, says the Government's current resistance is "inexplicable". The Prime Minister is really "overdoing it", he said, by claiming the ball was a “vector ...

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described a cricket ball as a “natural vector of disease” as he confirmed the sport remains banned outside the elite level. England are due to play their first ...

ECB CHIEFS spread Covid-19 on cricket balls to help prove it ... of collapse after PM Boris Johnson suggested the ball was “a natural vector of the disease”. That prompted the ECB to ask ...

How would you shine the cricket ball in the time of Covid-19? • Getty Images Sweat can be used to shine the ball. Saliva cannot. Home umpires will temporarily replace neutral umpires.