ECB apologises for ‘ill-judged’ tweet about Pope

The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has apologised for a social media post that joked the hospitalised Pope Francis “loves the Ashes”, reports said. “This was an ill-judged post and was swiftly deleted. We apologise for any offence,” the BBC quoted an ECB spokesperson as saying. A message on the X account of the 88-year-old pope, who has been in hospital for nearly three weeks with pneumonia, was posted to mark Ashes on Wednesday. “The Ashes remind us of who we are, which does us good,” the post said.