Closed-door matches will help West Indies: Phil Simmons
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|| CF Correspondent ||
West Indies head coach Phil Simmons said that close door matches may help his team in upsetting the home side.
International cricket is suspended from March 8, and cricketing activities is set to resume when England take on West Indies in a three-match Test series starting July 8 at Southampton.
''I don't know if it will increase our chances, because both teams are under the same umbrella - for want of a better word," Simmons said in a video conference from the team's training base here.
"The nice part for us is that 20,000 Englishmen raving for England, and that crowd support, it's not there for them. So that in a way will help us, so it's good from that point of view,’’ he said.
Besides the absence of hostile English fans, Simmons said lack of competitive cricket could also hurt the hosts in the series.
‘’England hasn't come from a tour recently, and we've just been playing cricket at home. Because in a normal situation we would have been coming from camps and England would have been halfway through their season and the series would have been going on right now,’’ he said.
"So, I think that is a plus for us, because it evens out things a little bit, with the fact they haven't been playing competitive cricket for a while also," he observed.
