Twitter reactions on West Indies reaching England: Twitterati rejoices as resumption of international cricket nears reality.
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Having boarded a chartered flight from Antigua last evening, the West Indian cricket team has reached Manchester for their historic three-match Test series against England which will resume international cricket amidst the novel COVID-19 pandemic.
Originally scheduled to commence on June 4 and end on June 29, the series will now be played between July 8 – July 28. With West Indies approving England’s proposal, it was only a matter of time before the England Cricket Board completed the formalities with getting government’s permission for conducting the series.
While the first Test will be played at Southampton, the next two will be played at Old Trafford. Both the venues will be converted into bio-secure environments to provided optimum security to the players from coronavirus.
West Indies, who will train at the Old Trafford in a bio-secure environment for three weeks, will move to Southampton on July 3.
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The 25-man West Indies squad has been accompanied by 11-member support staff. All the individual had tested negative for coronavirus in Antigua and are expected to undergo another Test in Manchester.
“As soon as they [players] get to Old Trafford they will go to a holding room in the stadium where they will be able to have breakfast and at the same time go in batches to get tested again
“And then we should get those test results by Thursday. We will be training from Thursday once we get the UK test results back,” Cricket West Indies Chief Executive Johnny Grave had told ESPNcricinfo.
Twitter reactions on West Indies reaching England
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