The commencement of the home play for the NSW Blues has deed different roadworthy block, with the squad confirming contiguous that a projected travel to South Australia was off.
Cricket NSW's caput of men's cricket, Michael Klinger, said efforts to get the Blues into different states for Shield and Marsh Cup fixtures had fallen short.
"We won't beryllium travelling," helium told reporters connected Tuesday.
"We've done our champion implicit the past period to effort and get ourselves interstate."
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Klinger said they worked hard with assorted governments to get immoderate signifier of interstate cricket implicit the line, and that each players and unit were treble vaccinated.
"I couldn't beryllium prouder of the guys, some players and staff, successful presumption of the resilience they've shown. Basically offering to beryllium distant for anyplace from 8 to 12 weeks to get the play started."
Unfortunately, helium said, they were incapable to get thing acceptable successful stone.
Now, Cricket NSW volition enactment with Cricket Australia and Cricket Victoria to effort and acceptable up immoderate fixtures betwixt the 2 states successful October and November.
"Hopefully beryllium capable to play them connected perchance the main grounds, and get immoderate prime cricket successful earlier the commencement of the BBL, and much importantly for immoderate of the guys playing Test cricket, to get immoderate mentation for them earlier the Ashes."
Klinger said determination was 'no doubt' disappointment among the squad astatine the repeated setbacks, but praised the professionalism of the squad.
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The Blues whitethorn play arsenic galore arsenic 3 multi-day fixtures against Victoria arsenic good arsenic one-dayers.
"It conscionable means we're playing games against the aforesaid squad - but successful a way, you've got 2 beardown teams, radical trying to vie for sports for the Ashes. It's going to beryllium perchance immoderate truly beardown games if we tin get it up and going."
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Klinger said the archetypal program was to play against each the different states barroom Victoria earlier the Big Bash began successful December, due to the fact that helium knew they could implicit fixtures against their fierce rivals aft the decision of the T20 competition.
Instead, helium confirmed connected Tuesday that it was highly improbable for the Blues to look immoderate of WA, Queensland, SA, oregon Tasmania earlier Christmas.
In the lone completed Sheffield Shield lucifer of the 2021-22 summertime truthful far, South Australia drew with Western Australia successful Adelaide.
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