Star pacer Jofra Archer will face disciplinary proceedings for breaching the Covid-19 protocol that could have been a “disaster” and cost the England Cricket Board “tens of millions of pounds”, ECB director Ashley Giles has said.
Archer was on Thursday dropped from the second Test for breaking the team’s bio-secure protocol and will now undergo two Covid-19 tests during a five-day isolation period.
“There have to be consequences to every action and there will be a (disciplinary) process. This could have been a disaster. The ripple effect this could have had through the whole summer could have cost us tens of millions of pounds,” Giles told reporters.
“The potential knock-on effect I don’t think he could have understood. He’s a young man, young men make mistakes. He has to learn from them.”