Fantasy Bob notes that all across England golfers, tennis players and anglers will be collapsing into their arm chairs this evening, tired but happy following the novelty of a day of furious activity. These outdoor sports are now officially sanctioned south of the border. These rules do not apply yet in Scotland, whose golfers, tennis players and anglers remain inactive. As do cricketers the length and breadth of these islands.
Cricket was not identified in those recent relaxations. However alongside international matches being planned behind locked doors in bio-secure environments with taped crowd noises, are reports of the authorities working hard to develop guidelines that would allow some aspects of recreational cricket to recommence.
Matches themselves can never fit with physicasl distancing rules but the optimists note that much practice is more individual. It should therefore be possible to develop a framework which would allow net sessions, or other practice activities to go ahead, within the strictures of physical distancing.
The only concrete suggestion that has come to FB's attention is that there should be vacant lanes between active nets. It may however be that physical distancibng will mean a strict policy of one bowler per net will have to be applied. FB sees this as fraught with danger, but not from the spread of the virus as such.
FB can imagine himself turning up ready for the socially isolated spot at the end of the net. The adjacent net is empty. FB feels a surge of peaceful expectation as he stretches his unused muscles. That peace is shattered when he looks up to see the bowler that he has to face for the next 15 minutes. Inevitably it is the club's latest star 11 year old leg spinner. There may be something to be said for this lockdown after all.
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