Marriages Delayed Due To Outbreak Of COVID 19 Infection:
April has been a wedding season for Australia’s cricketers since time immemorial, after the season ends and before the chill of winter takes full effect.
Nonetheless, this year’s count of delayed marriages offers yet another indicator of the COVID19 pandemic’s toll, as best-laid plans are postponed indefinitely, or at least until the end of next summer.
No fewer than eight Cricket Australia or state contracting players have opted to postpone their nuptials due to stringent limits on public events, restricting the size of weddings in Australia to a minimum of five guests-the two couples, the priest or celebrant and their witnesses.
Among the group are Australian men’s wrist spinner Adam Zampa and women’s left-arm spinner Jess Jonassen, while the others are Jackson Pigeon, Mitchell Swepson, Andrew Tye, D’Arcy Short, Katelyn Fryett, and Alister McDermott. All had set their weddings for April or afterwards, prompting postponements until as long as they could enjoy their big days as originally planned.
Others are not in the same company, having been engaged recently and now arranging for weddings to take place at a date that has yet to be determined. Those include Glenn Maxwell and Pat Cummins, who said he’d be even more interested with wedding planning now because there’s no cricket in front of him immediately.
“It means first of all that I’m going to have to be more involved in the planning as I’m around more, which is good,” Cummins said. “No we’re lucky. Obviously just got it engaged, and hopefully by the time our wedding comes around much of that will have blown over.
“I just feel like a few close friends here like Adam Zampa who had to postpone their weddings. It’s really difficult times. But hopefully nothing has changed too much from our point of view with that. Obviously bigger issues at stake.”
Cummins ‘fiancee Becky Boston is English, and he said his heart went out to all the cricketers and families facing an even bigger disruption than those at the wedding. He also noted the awful scenes in Italy and Spain, where coronavirus has taken a much heavier toll than Australia has encountered so far.
