Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 02:53:29 AM

Quote from: vella85 on February 05, 2021, 10:11:12 PM

Yes I was looking forward to this series as it would of been the first time back for Steve Smith and David Warner after the sandpaper scandal. I think if the virus strain wasn't as bad and was the normal strain then Australia would tour SA. It would of been great if both boards could work out a share of the TV rights but then again, would SA want to travel to Australia with the strict quarantine Australia has for anyone coming from SA, this could also be stopping SA from accepting to travel to Australia.

Yeah.. there is a lot of talk about the new virus strain that has been discovered in South Africa. A lot of people, including Kevin Pieterson and Michael Vaughan have issued statements on this regard. In case of Pieterson, he raised the question whether Australia could have done the same, if the tour was against India. Here is his original tweet:

https://twitter.com/KP24/status/1356905987274379267

But personally, I believe that CA made the right decision by pulling out of the tour.

Australia and India are two of the richest board and they do not need to play a lot of international matches to generate revenue. The virus strain was still present when these two countries were playing matches. Since it was a home series Australia did not have any issue at that time, and the Indian board wanted to cash in. That is why they played and now they only using the virus as an excuse.