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Vaccination rates are irrelevant to this issue.It is completely about whether the government will allow quarantine free entry.
Apparently Johnson was talking to Morrison this week at the international conference they were at.He was discussing exemption for the English cricketers and their families.According to reports Morrison told him that not only would there be no exemption but that families were not going to be allowed even if they did quarantine.The English cricketers have been told by the ECB that they will contact them with the final rules on 26 September-this Sunday.
Already the overseas tv companies are reading the tea leaves with no broadcasters in either England or India prepared to televise what will be a farce.As far as you can tell Stuart Broad and Dan Lawrence are the only current English test cricketers who have said they will tour under the current arrangements.
F1 and Aus Open tennis are simpler in one respect because they only have to go to 1 state but Morrison could take a hard line banning them from entry and probably will if he sees political advantage in it.
What happens with cricketers after Sunday will tell part of the story but things will really hit the fan with release of F1 calendar which is scheduled in 3 weeks time on 15 October.
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