The England captain has had to improvise during a two-week hotel room stint in preparation for the start of the 2020 WBBL season
The treadmill is a fraction slow for what Heather Knight needs. The machine in her Adelaide hotel room can handle up to 16km/h – not for the faint of heart, but also not sufficient to simulate sprinting on a field.
Training in a cricketer’s natural habitat is not an option in quarantine. But the bigger model did not fit through the door, so the England captain is taking what she can get. At least she’s got one – and a window with a view. “Some of the other girls,” she says, “are just staring at a wall.”
