BBL game called off hours before first ball

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Tonight's Big Bash League crippled betwixt Perth Scorchers and Melbourne Stars has been postponed indefinitely.

A subordinate of the Stars' campy tested affirmative for COVID-19, prompting the crippled to beryllium called disconnected hours earlier the archetypal shot was owed to beryllium bowled astatine Marvel Stadium.

"While regrettable, the determination to postpone tonight's lucifer was the lone enactment disposable fixed the exposures wrong the Stars cohort," BBL manager Alistair Dobson said.

"The league has a fig of biosecurity protocols successful spot to support our participants harmless and the contention moving forward.

"These protocols are regularly reviewed successful effect to the risks successful each state. Safety remains our fig 1 precedence and we volition enactment with the Stars to get their broadside backmost connected the tract arsenic soon arsenic possible."

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