Tributes to victims at Ashes Tests

Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were stabbed to death

England and Australia volition wage tribute to the victims of the Nottingham attacks connected time 1 of the archetypal Ashes Test astatine Edgbaston connected Friday.

The aforesaid tributes volition beryllium paid connected time 1 of the women's Ashes Test astatine Trent Bridge successful Nottingham connected 22 June.

Three radical died aft a bid of attacks successful Nottingham aboriginal connected Tuesday morning.

University of Nottingham students Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar, some 19, and schoolhouse caretaker Ian Coates, 65, were stabbed, with different 3 radical injured.

"The profoundly distressing scenes witnessed successful Nottingham this week person brought immense sorrow to everyone, peculiarly the cherished friends and families of the victims," said England men's Test skipper Ben Stokes.

"It is intolerable to explicit however overmuch their lives and futures person been tragically disrupted.

"These events sadden the England cricket teams, and we are reasoning astir those affected astatine this harrowing time. As a motion of respect, we volition honour them by wearing achromatic armbands."

Ms O'Malley-Kumar was a subordinate of the England U16 and U18 hockey squads, arsenic good arsenic playing for Southgate Hockey Club and Woodford Wells Cricket Club successful London.

Mr Webber was a "key member" of Bishops Hull Cricket Club and had been selected for the assemblage team.

England women's skipper Heather Knight said: "It was incredibly saddening to larn astir the events that took spot successful Nottingham, and it felt a spot person to location to larn that 2 of the victims had been cricket players.

"All of our thoughts are with the families and friends of everyone affected by the tragedy, and with the metropolis of Nottingham."

A 31-year-old antheral has been arrested connected suspicion of execution and remains successful constabulary custody.