The first Test match between Australia and India in Brisbane will not
start on December 4 as scheduled, Cricket Australia announced on
Saturday Nov 29,2014
The first test between Australia and India has been postponed to allow his team mates to mourn the death of Phillip Hughes at his funeral on Wednesday, Cricket Australia said on Saturday.
The test was scheduled to start in Brisbane on Thursday, a week after batsman Hughes died at the age of 25 as a result of being struck on the head by a ball at the Sydney Cricket Ground two days earlier.
Given the close proximity of the funeral in his hometown of Macksville to the start of the four-match series, CA said it would be unreasonable for the Australian players to be expected to play
First Test Match to take place at Adelaide from Dec 09-13,2014
First Test Match to take place at Adelaide from Dec 09-13,2014
The series
was supposed to start in Brisbane on Thursday but has been delayed and
the venue switched to give grief-stricken players more time to recover,
with Hughes' funeral taking place on Wednesday Dec 04,2014
The
Australian and Indian cricket boards considered a range of options in
conjunction with the players' union, including cancelling the Brisbane
Test altogether, before opting for a reshuffle.
Adelaide,
which was due to host the second Test from December 12-16, will now host
the series opener from December 9-13, in what is sure to be a highly
emotional occasion.
Brisbane
will now host the second Test from December 17-21 while the third Test
will proceed as planned from Boxing Day-December 30 in Melbourne.
The
fourth and final Test will still take place in Sydney in the new year,
but will start on January 6, three days later than originally scheduled.
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