Fans rooting for WI tour of England

are a lot of old games being showed, past games and people are enjoying that but they looking forward to live sports and I think there is a lot of hope that it happens but again I say that depends on how it is put together and the assurance that everyone will be safe.”

Looking at the team’s preparation amid the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, Simmons admitted that it is difficult but not impossible and in light of a number of territories making provisions, the players have been working on their fitness while sticking to the guidelines to deal with the pandemic.

“The thing is for the past about four weeks or a bit more than that, guys have been given different programmes and asked to make sure that even though they are locked away because some of the territories had lockdowns very early and even though they are locked away they must find a room in their house or in a backyard to do the work and keep a certain level of fitness as the places are opened up some players are able to run on the beach or run outside but the training itself has been stepped up,” Simmons

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noted. He added, “Even as it has opened up a bit now there are a few guys who can go out and bowl on a pitch somewhere just to get their rhythm back so that is how we have to progress it and we are at a stage where there are not many facilities open where you can actually practice but there are a few grounds where the bowlers themselves can bowl, there is no batsmen so they do spot bowling and we are hopeful that this can develop and develops by the time the tour is ready to come off, everybody would have done something at home but the training has been going on a while now.”