The legendary Ian Healy has unleashed a withering onslaught connected Cricket Australia and Cricket Tasmania implicit the postponement of the Sheffield Shield clash, slamming it arsenic "a debacle".
The lucifer betwixt Queensland and Tasmania, scheduled to statesman connected Tuesday greeting successful Brisbane, was postponed erstwhile Tasmania made the telephone to alert location conscionable moments earlier it was owed to start.
The lone crushed fixed by Cricket Australia and Cricket Tasmania for the abandonment was that Queensland had recorded 4 caller COVID-19 cases.
The determination was adjacent made earlier the nationalist code of Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and, successful her address, she didn't adjacent enforce a lockdown, alternatively tightening disguise rules.
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Healy's SEN vigor co-host, Pat Welsh, labelled the canning of the fixture "a knee-jerk reaction".
Healy, who sits connected the committee of Queensland Cricket, went harder.
"To get rugby league retired of the headlines (during NRL expansive last week) they went to immoderate utmost lengths ... successful what tin lone beryllium called a cricket debacle," Healy said.
"So, who are they? Who are Cricket Australia lucifer operations? Why did they spell without the nationalist wellness accusation of yesterday successful postponing a Sheffield Shield match? Then, who gave each the approvals to the Cricket Australia lucifer operations committee?
"Now, lucifer operations instrumentality things precise earnestly astatine a micro level. Ah, gee, they're bully astatine putting retired the portion to archer nationalist and unit wherever they tin and can't go. 'This is for players.' They demark those areas beautifully!"
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The postponement of a Sheffield Shield lucifer is peculiarly important this twelvemonth due to the fact that of the looming location Ashes series.
The Queensland-Tasmania fixture would person fixed the likes of Marnus Labuschagne, Usman Khawaja, Michael Neser and Matthew Wade an accidental to either fine-tune for the Ashes oregon involvement their enactment claims.
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Healy's rant was a agelong one.
"And past they disrespect the competition," the erstwhile Test wicketkeeper said.
"It's unbelievable! The important bits they disrespect. That was incredible.
"The integrity of the Sheffield Shield has been disrespected by Cricket Australia staff. The enactment of Cricket Australia has been disrespected by the aforesaid staff. They weren't adjacent contacted. Can you judge that?
"There's 4 things. One: the postponement. Two: nary enactment successful cricket contacted. So, therefore, they're not respected and regarded. Three: the alert location from Tassie. And four: conscionable arsenic bad, the media blackout! You can't person a debacle similar this successful a large athletics successful our state and not archer america why. They don't cognize why! That's wherefore (they didn't archer us).
"It was an implicit debacle."
In the lone completed Sheffield Shield lucifer of the 2021-22 summertime truthful far, South Australia drew with Western Australia successful Adelaide connected Monday.
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