{"id":821374,"date":"2026-11-02T04:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821374\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T04:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T04:00:10","slug":"asa-tribe-glamorgan-batter-unable-to-join-england-lions-in-west-indies-amid-local-ebola-virus-fears-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821374\/","title":{"rendered":"Asa Tribe: Glamorgan batter unable to join England Lions in West Indies amid local Ebola virus fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Glamorgan batter Asa Tribe has been barred from joining the England Lions squad in the West Indies because of a recent trip to Kenya.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tribe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/cricket\/articles\/cqzrdky77kvyo\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">played three one-day matches for Jersey in Nairobi<\/a> in late October, lining up against Kuwait and Papua New Guinea, as well as against the hosts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was then due to join England Lions for a series of T20 and one-day matches against West Indies A.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But concerns over an outbreak of the deadly Ebola virus in Kenya led to Tribe not being admitted to Saint Kitts &amp; Nevis, which is hosting all the games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Saint Kitts &amp; Nevis currently have a 21-day non-entry rule in place for non-nationals who have been in Kenya due to the Ebola situation in Kenya and seven other countries in Africa,&#8221; a spokesperson for the England and Wales Cricket Board told BBC Sport Wales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Asa is back in the UK, and we are in touch with the relevant authorities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">England Lions won the first T20 by eight wickets on Sunday after bowling West Indies A out for 98, with Naavya Sharma taking four wickets and Scott Currie three.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Captain Thomas Rew hit 50 not out as the tourists reached 101-2 in just 10.1 overs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Glamorgan batter Asa Tribe has been barred from joining the England Lions squad in the West Indies because&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821375,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1721,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-cricket","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821374","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=821374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821374\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}