The English cricket team will now use the term ‘team environment’ instead of ‘bio-bubble’ when it faces New Zealand in a home Test series, getting underway on June 2 at the Lord’s in London.
According to reports in British media, the change in nomenclature has been done to avoid negative connotation of the term ‘bio-bubble’.
Though the bio-bubble won’t be as strict as it has been so far as restrictions are being lifted across the United Kingdom, both the teams will still be allowed only to the grounds and hotels during series.
“Despite a two-month gap since the end of the India Test series — and the likely absence of players who took part in the recent Indian Premier League and are currently in quarantine — Chris Silverwood’s coaching staff and the squad will still be urged to start referring to the ‘team environment’ instead of the ‘bubble’,” said a report in The Guardian newspaper.
“It is a small change but one that is hoped will help them collectively move on from a testing 12-month period that included the white-ball team pulling out of three ODIs in South Africa when panicked by an outbreak of Covid-19 in the team hotel and saw a psychologist taken on tour in the subcontinent,” the report added.