{"id":506349,"date":"2026-04-01T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506349\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:54:10","slug":"county-cricketers-can-be-substituted-for-injury-illness-or-childbirth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/506349\/","title":{"rendered":"County cricketers can be substituted for injury, illness or childbirth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ECB says the aim of their year-long trial is to be as \u201cinclusive and permissive\u201d as possible, and to \u201coptimise the quality of cricket, and get 11 playing 11 as much as we can\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are allowing replacement players for all injuries, illness, and significant life events,\u201d said Fordham. \u201cThey could be expected or unexpected. Childbirth would be an expected life event. Most seasons we get three or four questions about a player being replaced to witness the birth of a child, and the answer has been no. Now the answer will be yes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are also unexpected life events. There was the incident around <a class=\"ck-custom-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/cricket\/2024\/12\/12\/blair-tickner-new-zealand-derbyshire-acute-leukaemia\/#:~:text=Fantasy%20Football-,Blair%20Tickner%3A%20I%20found%20out%20my%20wife%20had%20cancer%20during,I%20had%20to%20play%20on&amp;text=The%20last%20time%20England%20toured,a%20rangy%20right%2Darm%20seamer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blair Tickner<\/a>, whose wife was taken ill during the game. It was a tough message to say \u2018sorry, you can\u2019t have a replacement player, you have to play with 10\u2019. If, heaven forbid, something was to happen again we would say \u2018yes, you could have a replacement player\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose are two clear-cut examples, there will be others that will be slightly greyer. We are having a first step in the water with this and will live and learn as we go. If we need [to], we will refine it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ECB says the aim of their year-long trial is to be as \u201cinclusive and permissive\u201d as possible,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[25704,11676,1721,177629,17779,107027,217,101,5438,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-506349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-chris-woakes","tag-county-championship","tag-cricket","tag-england-and-wales-cricket-board-ecb","tag-ipl","tag-nathan-lyon","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}