Australia have postponed the South Africa series due to the increasing cases of coronavirus in the country.
The Cricket Australia took to social media to share the press release.
“Following extensive due diligence with medical experts, it has become clear that travelling from Australia to South Africa at this current time poses an unacceptable level of health and safety risk to our players, support staff and the community,” Hockley said in a statement.
“We acknowledge the significant amount of work by CSA in planning for the tour, during which we made it clear that CA was prepared to take on additional cost and effort to make the series happen.”
“This decision has not been made lightly and we are extremely disappointed, especially given the importance of continuing international cricket at this time, our valued relationship with CSA, and our aspirations to compete in the inaugural ICC World Test Championship.
Based on this move, New Zealand now have become the first team to qualify for the final. Their opponent will be decided based on the result of India vs England series.
Australia can technically qualify but the result is not in their hands now.
The World Test Championship final is slated to be played from June 18 to 22 at the Lord’s.
