No Family, No Ashes Tour For England's Jos Buttler

England vice-captain Jos Buttler has insisted again he will miss the upcoming Ashes tour if his family are unable to join him in Australia. Buttler will fly out to the United Arab Emirates next week a

"Hopefully in the next few days there'll be more information. As soon as you get that it makes it easier to know what decision you're making."

Buttler, yet to play in an overseas Ashes, added: "The ECB (England and Wales Cricket Board) and Cricket Australia will be working very hard together to make it as good as possible.

"It's tough to make a decision when you don't have all the answers. In Covid times, there is always going to be some sort of question that is difficult to answer. "It could be changeable, it would be naive not to say so in the times we're living in, but you want to go there with as many assurances as possible."

Meanwhile, ECB chairman Ian Watmore said he was prepared for more twists and turns ahead of the scheduled Ashes opener in Brisbane on December 8. "There is no simple date it must be decided by, apart from when that plane goes to Australia," Watmore told the Daily Mail.

"There are issues for CA to sort out with their government and for the federal government to sort out with state governments. "We're working hard to provide an environment in which our players and their families want to go and perform to their best. If Australia can deliver that, great, if not we may have to have more challenging discussions."