I really doubt whether the reduction in salary will be used anywhere else. First of all, there is a huge revenue loss for all of the major cricket boards as a result of cancellation and postponement of the tournaments. So there is a sharp decline in the revenue for starters. And this cut in revenue will be reflected in the salaries of the players as well. It's not like the boards are earning good amounts and not passing on the benefits to the players.

Many players have donated amount to relief funds and other charity organization but what transparency we have after that, is it reaching the correct place and till now i am yet to see any transparent NGO on how they are making use of the funds they are collecting.

It is a difficult period for anyone, pay cut will not have a big difference for sports person as they are earning a good amount of money than the average and above average population, when the whole world is taking a big toll then these entertainers can burden some considering that millions of below average people are going through.

Well.. the other boards (including the BCCI) may also follow this, as they don't have any other choice available. But the Australian board will be in big trouble, if they have to cancel the test series against India. Bilateral series against India is huge, and it has the potential to boost the CA coffers by up to $200 million. But if they have to cancel it, then the board will be in serious financial trouble.

Like BCCI Australian cricket board have no more options on their hand. Aussie government have already taken strict actions to keep their citizens from Covid19 and hopefully they will take much more precautionary steps to keep their sports person safer. Australian prime minister already suggested all foreign students to go to their home countries for a shorter period if they are unable to maintain their daily costs. So in a situation like this i don't think they are thinking about any cricket tournaments or anything else. On the other India is one of the biggest country with huge population and bad news is covid19 patients are increasing massively on their region. If social and physical transmission keep continues like this than its gonna be really hard for PM modi to control the situation.  

Lets hope for the best.

Recently Australian board even lost amount in stock market, guess they invested big portion of their reserves/revenue in the market as part of their investment strategy but due to COVID-19 market taking a hit and they caught up in this mess.

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/cricket/players-come-to-the-table-as-cricket-australia-battles-cash-crisis/news-story/98cf09b86518b89f07a64533ef93a39a

India is actually doing really well when compared to other countries like USA etc when it comes to handling the COVID situation. They are the 2nd most populated country in the world and yet only have around 17k+ cases so far which shows that their lockdown has been effective.

On the other hand, a country like USA could not cope with this problem properly due to which it is leading the COVID rankings.

What do you mean? The figures state everything. India is in a much, much better position when compared to countries like the US and UK currently though their health-care system is pretty poor thanks to the lockdown. However, I feel like the lockdown was implemented in a poor manner.

COVID-19 is basically the topic to discuss these days which is why I wouldn't worry. This virus is what is on everyone's minds these days.

Yeah but this thread is about the cricket so we should discuss only about the cricket here. I do agree that all of the cricket is paused these days only because of this covid-19 but we have many other threads where covid-19 is being discussed in more details.

I wonder when we will see first match (Test ODI T20) after this break. Maybe next year  

As long as its not book cricket, i am fine with it.

One creative way could be, Players using sandpaper officially as they can't use saliva on ball. 

Yeah, The Melbourne Cricket Ground.

Right now due to Corona ECB and Cricket Australia both in very bad situation and want to set things for coming series as if they fail to do this they can face some serious trouble so today I check England is already working on three grounds for series without crowd and same thing happeing in Australia against India is surely very big series which can help them so hopefully they will do this all with some unique idea.