New Zealand Cricket set to suffer job losses due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic

New Zealand Cricket is set to make a reduction in its staff as y brace mselves for an expected fall in revenue due to impact of coronavirus pandemic. During early days of pandemic, NZC had asked its staff to use up ir annual leaves and put m onto four-day working weeks.

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' cuts are coming from NZC': David White

"It would be fair to say it's a significant reduction from that revenue, hence se significant cuts. We have our priorities for year which we're t compromising and we're investing in those. cuts are coming from NZC, $6 million, of which $1.5m is staff," stuff.co.nz quoted NZC chief executive David White as saying.

"What we are experiencing is what I imagine most businesses in New Zealand are experiencing at moment. It's a really challenging situation and we've just got to work through it best we can to ensure NZ Cricket remains strong and viable, and all our members do as well," White said.

NZC is currently looking to make NZD 6 million in savings of which NZD 1.5 million would be coming from job cuts that are expected to hit ir operations at head office in Auckland and base office at Lincoln near Christchurch.

All global sporting events have eir been postponed or cancelled due to global pandemic. ODI series between Australia-New Zealand has been postponed while India-South Africa ODI series has been rescheduled at a later date. Even IPL 2020 has been suspended indefinitely as of w.

ICC T20 World Cup that is scheduled to take place in Australia in October-vember this year is also in serious jeopardy of getting cancelled as well, and should that happened, n it has been reported that event will take place Down Under in 2022.

(With ANI Inputs)

( Im Courtesy: AP)

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