Just our cup of tea! UK PM Johnson makes rapid virus cricket ban U-turn

would be allowed to resume on the weekend of July 11-12.

In a radio interview earlier Friday, Johnson angered thousands of club cricketers by saying the amateur game was still not safe to play amid the coronavirus pandemic because of issues surrounding communal teas and dressing rooms. "It's the teas, it's the changing rooms and so on and so forth. There are other factors involved that generate proximity which you might not get in a game of tennis," he said.

Johnson had already provoked a furious response from the likes of former England captain Michael Vaughan by saying last month aball was a"vector of disease" despite recreational tennis and golf having already resumed amid the COVID-19 outbreak. But Johnson, at a Downing Street briefing on Friday that took place several hours after his radio interview, usedJohnson explained the reversal of his position by saying he'd called in"the third umpire", who in professional"The 'third umpire' has been invoked, and what I can say is that we do want to work as fast as possible to get

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