Ashes: England groups to put on black armbands in 1st Test in honour of Nottingham assault victims

By Reuters: England’s males’s and ladies’s gamers will put on black armbands on day one in every of Tests towards Australia this month as a tribute to victims of a stabbing and van assault within the English metropolis of Nottingham, the nation’s cricket board (ECB) stated on Thursday.

A minute’s silence might be noticed earlier than the boys’s opening Ashes Test at Edgbaston on Friday, in addition to the ladies’s one-off Test towards Australia in Nottingham from June 22-26.

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“The deeply distressing scenes witnessed in Nottingham this week have brought immense sorrow to everyone, particularly the cherished friends and families of the victims,” England males’s check captain Ben Stokes stated.

“It is impossible to express how much their lives and futures have been tragically disrupted.

“These occasions sadden the England cricket groups, and we’re desirous about these affected at this harrowing time. As a gesture of respect, we’ll honour them by carrying black armbands.”

Three people died and another was left in a critical condition after the attack.

One of the teenage victims, Grace Kumar, had played hockey for England’s Under-18 team and cricket for Woodford Wells Cricket Club and her fellow student Barnaby Webber was said to be a keen cricketer.

“It was extremely saddening to study in regards to the occasions that happened in Nottingham, and it felt a bit nearer to house to study that two of the victims had been cricket gamers,” England ladies’s captain Heather Knight stated.