England gamers ‘disillusioned’ at lack of northern venues for 2027 Ashes
England gamers have expressed their shock and disappointment on the omission of each fundamental northern venues from the schedule for the 2027 males’s Ashes.
Headingley and Old Trafford, the venues for the third and fourth Tests within the ongoing collection, have been ignored within the allocation for England’s subsequent house Ashes in 4 years’ time. The Ageas Bowl, close to Southampton, will as a substitute host its first Ashes Test, whereas Trent Bridge would be the northernmost floor used within the collection.
While each Headingley and Old Trafford will stage males’s Ashes Tests in 2031, the allocation for 2027 has been broadly criticised. Scyld Berry, the Telegraph‘s chief cricket author, described it as “an outrage”, whereas Mark Wood and Jack Leach have each expressed their remorse on the lack of a northern Test in interviews this week.
“As a lad from the north, obviously I love playing in the north,” Wood instructed talkSPORT. “Headingley has had some [amazing] games: obviously in the last series with Ben Stokes and this one was another great game. Old Trafford’s an iconic place to play. Durham as well… to see Test-match cricket up in the north at Durham is always special.
“I perceive a number of the the reason why however [I am] stunned there is not not less than one sport up right here, as a result of I believe we get nice help and I believe they’re iconic locations to play. [I’m] slightly bit disillusioned, simply being from the north, that there is not one up right here the place you are feeling such as you’ve acquired that further backing and you’ll relate with individuals up right here.”
Leach, who is from the south-west, suggested that England’s players perform better in front of the louder crowds that attend Tests in the north. “You need to profit from house benefit do not you? And these grounds, you positively really feel such as you’ve acquired probably that,” Leach told the Vaughany and Tuffers Cricket Club podcast.
“I take into consideration going to Australia and the quantity of stick I acquired or all of us acquired there and perhaps, with these grounds [Old Trafford and Headingley], you are feeling just like the opposition will get it slightly bit. You get it if you go to that place. And I believe that really could make a giant distinction.
“They talk about the crowd being like a 12th man and I think in those places, it definitely is. So yeah, I think that’s a shame… playing up north, those grounds seem to be good for us and the crowd is just epic up in those places.”
Both Old Trafford and Headingley will host Tests in opposition to India – England’s second-most prestigious house collection – in 2025, whereas Headingley is because of host the ladies’s Ashes Test in 2027.