By means of Reuters: England’s males’s and girls’s gamers will put on black armbands on day certainly one of Checks towards Australia this month as a tribute to sufferers of a stabbing and van assault within the English town of Nottingham, the rustic’s cricket board (ECB) stated on Thursday.
A minute’s silence will likely be seen earlier than the lads’s opening Ashes Take a look at at Edgbaston on Friday, in addition to the ladies’s one-off Take a look at towards Australia in Nottingham from June 22-26.
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“The deeply distressing scenes witnessed in Nottingham this week have introduced immense sorrow to everybody, specifically the beloved pals and households of the sufferers,” England males’s check captain Ben Stokes stated.
“It’s unimaginable to specific how a lot their lives and futures had been tragically disrupted.
“Those occasions sadden the England cricket groups, and we’re eager about the ones affected at this harrowing time. As a gesture of recognize, we can honour them by way of dressed in black armbands.”
3 other people died and some other was once left in a essential situation after the assault.
One of the most teenage sufferers, Grace Kumar, had performed hockey for England’s Underneath-18 workforce and cricket for Woodford Wells Cricket Membership and her fellow pupil Barnaby Webber was once stated to be a prepared cricketer.
“It was once extremely saddening to be told in regards to the occasions that came about in Nottingham, and it felt somewhat nearer to house to be told that two of the sufferers have been cricket gamers,” England girls’s captain Heather Knight stated.