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Derbyshire’s remaining T20 Blast group games against Northants and Yorkshire have been cancelled because of Covid issues affecting their squad.
At present, 14 players are self-isolating as close contacts of an unnamed team-mate who tested positive.
The Falcons also have six players unavailable because of injury.
Derbyshire’s County Championship match against Essex had to be abandoned on Monday before the start of the second day’s play following the positive test.
The England and Wales Cricket Board have now confirmed that Essex will receive 11 points and Derbyshire nine from the match, which will be “treated as a draw”.
Defending champions Essex needed to win and hope Worcestershire beat second-placed Warwickshire to stand any chance of going through to Division One.
But with the Bears’ game heading towards a draw at New Road, victory would not have been enough for Essex to progress anyway.
On Friday’s and…
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