MANCHESTER: England batsman Liam Livingstone’s time overseas was minimize quick by the coronavirus Covid-19 outbreak, however he was a minimum of capable of return to the nation in good time earlier than borders began to close.
Livingstone was rounding off what for him had been a busy winter enjoying T20 cricket abroad, together with his time with Peshawar Zalmi within the {Pakistan Super League} coming after spells with Cape Cobras and Perth Scorchers in South Africa and Australia respectively.
The 26-year-old Lancashire star was resulting from play in Peshawar’s last league-round match in opposition to Multan Sultans in Karachi on March 13 in a contest that in the end ended up being minimize quick due to the pandemic accelerating.
Livingstone made the choice to go residence after speaking with different abroad gamers within the competitors which included his fellow England internationals Alex Hales, James Vince, Liam Dawson, Tom Banton, Lewis Gregory and Tymal Mills.
Livingstone stated on Friday: “We weren’t really informed we would have liked to get again [from Pakistan]. We had been sort of oblivious to all of it on the market since you don’t actually watch many information programmes so it was solely from talking to my household and my girlfriend again residence that we realized that it was getting extra severe.
“As quickly as we heard about nations possibly closing their borders and stuff, we determined it was time to get again earlier than that occurred.
“We mainly acquired in a room one night time [at the teams’ hotel] and simply stated it was most likely the appropriate time for us to get residence and we flew out the subsequent afternoon.
“It all happened a little bit quickly but when it becomes a life or death situation, your health matters more than two or three more games of cricket, so we just decided as a group that it was best for us to head home.”
On having a few of his countrymen in the identical boat, Livingstone added: “It’s always nice to have people in the same situation because you feel less like you’re on your own and people just wanted to be with their family.”
Printed in Daybreak, March 28th, 2020
