Durham have cancelled their pre-season tour of Abu Dhabi amid the escalating battle within the Gulf.
On Saturday the US and Israel started strikes on Iran, which has responded by launching assaults on US-allied states within the area.
Durham’s males’s squad had been set to journey to the United Arab Emirates subsequent Monday with their girls’s facet leaving two weeks in a while 23 March.
“The protection and wellbeing of our gamers and employees is all the time our absolute precedence,” director of cricket Marcus North mentioned.
“We’ve been monitoring the scenario carefully alongside the related authorities and, after cautious consideration, we imagine that is the suitable resolution.”
Durham will now look to make different plans “to make sure the squad is totally prepared for the beginning of the season” North added.
The opening spherical of the 2026 County Championship season begins on Friday, 3 April.
“We are going to make an extra announcement sooner or later on our scheduled girls’s tour. We are going to proceed to evaluate all info obtainable to us and make selections in the most effective pursuits of everybody concerned,” North added.
“Our ideas are with everybody affected by the battle within the area at this troublesome time.”
