Cancelled Oval Test Could Have Cost ECB Millions Of Pounds

LONDON: The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) could have faced a potential multi-million pound loss had the third and final Test against South Africa been cancelled following the passing away of Queen Elizabeth II.

The ECB's insurance does not cover the passing of a monarch and the country's cricket body feared massive losses if the deciding Test at The Oval had got cancelled, said a report in the Daily Mail.

"The ECB's insurance does not cover cancellation caused by the death of a monarch, and so multi-million pound losses would have followed had the governing body chosen that course of action for England's third Test match against South Africa at the Kia Oval," said the report.

Following Surrey taking in 7.9m pounds in ticket sales for the rescheduled fifth Test between India and England, the ECB was looking at a potential windfall from the series-deciding third Test between England and South Africa.

Had the match been called off, it would have meant "majority of the money to be paid back to the spectators, as only the first day washout is covered by the insurers", said the report. IANS

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