Cumbria’s final NCCA Championship game in Hertfordshire has been abandoned because of COVID-19.
A Cumbrian player tested positive this morning at the team’s hotel and unfortunately the three-day game had to be called off.
The Cumbrian party will stay overnight again before returning home tomorrow.
Eric Carter, the Cumbria president, said: “All the players had taken a lateral flow test before we left as we are requested to do and all were negative.
“We got to our hotel in the early morning but when we got up for breakfast our captain Gary Pratt reported that one of the lads wasn’t feeling too good.
“He had complained of feeling hot on the bus coming down but so did one or two others and we just thought it was the air conditioning which we told the driver about.
“However when he took another lateral flow test his morning it proved positive. Unfortunately there was nothing else we could do and the game was abandoned.”
Cumbria had just won their first Championship game of the season against Buckinghamshire and were looking forward to a final work-out before their one-day final with Berkshire on September 2.
