England confirm Ashes decision will be made this week

England cricket officials volition denote this week if the scheduled Ashes bid successful Australia volition spell ahead.

The circuit is successful uncertainty due to the fact that of restrictions successful place successful Australia owed to the pandemic.

The England and Wales Cricket Board said contiguous that determination is "regular and affirmative dialogue" with Cricket Australia astir arrangements for an Ashes circuit "with wellness and wellbeing astatine the forefront."

"We volition proceed talking to our players this week to stock the latest accusation and question feedback," the ECB said.

England skipper Joe Root (left) and Australia skipper Tim Paine earlier posing for photographs during the nets league astatine Edgbaston, Birmingham. (Photo by Nick Potts/PA Images via Getty Images) (Getty)

"Later this week the ECB Board volition conscionable to determine whether the conditions successful spot are capable for the Tour to spell up and alteration the enactment of a squad befitting a bid of this significance."

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The Ashes bid is scheduled to commencement connected December 8, but with interstate borders inactive closed and Queensland and Western Australia adopting a hardline attitude, it remains clouded however the five-Test bid volition play out.

In caller weeks, a fig of erstwhile England players person deed retired astatine Australia's strict COVID-19 procedures, including Kevin Pietersen, who said it would beryllium foolish for England's players to perpetrate to the series unless quarantine restrictions were abolished owed to the question headaches it would enactment connected players' families.

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