Cricket Scotland offers to host NZ and Aus matches

Cricket Scotland is willing to host matches against New Zealand and Australia behind close doors.

UK.- Cricket Scotland has offered to host its scheduled matches against New Zealand and Australia behind closed doors if necessary amid the global Coronavirus lockdown.

Matches between the Scotland team and New Zealand and Australia are scheduled to be played in June and have yet to be officially postponed.

“We are planning our way through and waiting to see what happens with advice,” Gus Mackay, Cricket Scotland’s CEO, told. ESPNCricinfo.

“That’s all we can do at this stage. New Zealand isn’t going to Holland, and we’re just waiting to be guided by what their board says before we make any final decision.

“We have a temporary set-up at The Grange. If we got the go-ahead to play internationals behind closed doors, it’s something we’d consider and something we would be able to do.

“We do make money staging internationals, but if we had to play an international game behind closed doors it would definitely be feasible – the cost of temporary stands would be taken out of the equation,” he added.

The first leg of New Zealand’s European tour, an ODI series in the Netherlands, has been already postponed last week.

Meanwhile, the domestic cricket season in Scotland has been indefinitely suspended.