The England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) has to be credited for pioneering the blueprint ‘cricket in the bubble phenomenon’, a new experience of playing behind closed doors during the last few months in the wake of the global COVID-19 pandemic.
The English were able to convince the West Indies, Ireland, Pakistan, and Australia to engage in live sports when the World Health Organisation (WHO) was championing the need to employ social distancing measures to curb the spread of the deadly virus.