I get the impression those protocols would have been drawn up sometime ago.
As you've probably seen from Boris Johnson on LBC this morning now saying that changing rooms and teas are now an issue, I hope people are realising that its the buffon in charge of the country rather than the ECB directly and whom they're having to deal with
The thing is, any process of drawing up stages and protocols should be done openly and transparently. Clubs should have received updates about the protocols as they were being developed, and given the opportunity to provide feedback and suggestions - lets not forget that recreational cricketers have day jobs, and many will know far more about this kind of thing than some professional dogsbody at the ECB. Use that expertise! I work in policy development and guidance ffs, given my personal interest in this going well, I'd have helped them out for free.
The 5-step pathway could and should have been published in March, with protocols for a range of possible scenarios for the different stages developed openly and transparently throughout April. By 1st May, they should have been with DCMS for feedback, pushing for a 1st June start date - with delay until 4th July being a worst-case scenario.
Instead, we are where we are, the day before what should have been the worst-case outcome, still having negotiations with HMG that should have been resolved 2 months ago, and with no meaningful details of protocols having reached the clubs yet.
The impression I get is that the ECB simply don't have the staff in place to plan and manage detailed and difficult projects like this. They've been late and unprepared at every step of the way, and to make it worse, they're secretive and arrogant, and in total denial that they could have done any better.
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