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Hello, I'm John Fennagny. Welcome to the Test Match Special podcast and Michael Vaughn

is here with me usually to do this podcast after a match is finished.

I'm fortunate today where speaking to you because an entire tour has been called off.

England's one day international series against South Africa has been abandoned without a ball being

rolled due to positive Covid tests. Now it's important to get all the information across here so

bear with me while I take you on a timeline. England landed in South Africa on the 17th of November

all their Covid tests were negative on arrival. The next day one South African player tested positive

and two close contacts were also put into isolation. On the 20th of November two days later another

home player tested positive and their warm up match was cancelled. Those two players returned

negative tests a week later and the T20 series goes ahead which England won 3-0. Then on December

3 another South African player test positive. The next day's first one day international is postponed.

The second match should have been on Sunday. That was delayed after two members of the team hotel

staff returned positive tests. England then had another round of testing and for the first time

two members of their touring party returned positive tests. The next match that was

penciled in for today was postponed and then this afternoon the announcement that we all expected

the tour is off. However there are still lots of questions about how the virus got into what

supposed to be a biosecure environment, how and when the England team can return home and

whether anyone will agree to play cricket in South Africa if there are question marks over biosecurity.

Now anybody who went to South African journalists for Duce Munda but Michael Vaughn,

where do we start with this? It was never going to be straight forward I don't think.

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