Australian players have invented a new way to keep themselves fit during lockdown and quarantine. While they were asked to use room towels for maintaining strength, their way made headlines as well.

“Our trainer has sent us a programme, an exercise for us to try out to keep our throwing up in lockdown,” Pat Cummins had said on a Youtube show. “Which is, you get a hand towel or a small towel and you tie a knot at the end of it. It 9the knot) almost looks like a cricket ball and you bowl in your room and you feel a bit of resistance while bowling,” he further added while explaining the method.

However, Pat Cummins is among other Australian players who are currently serving the quarantine period after arriving from India via the Maldives after the postponement of the 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League earlier this month. Apart from him, other players are –  David Warner and Steve Smith, who are also locked up in hotel rooms in Sydney as well.

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Meanwhile, Pat Cummins has also acknowledged that using a cricket ball in the room is quite impossible, the towel has come in handy in the hotel room as well.

“Shout-out to our trainer. He sent that one to practice. We were struck in our room with no cricket ball to throw. Maybe, we can try that with our run-up and with our bowling,” he again shared. “Try and work on core. Few squats, few sit-ups. Can’t go wrong doing those things as a fast bowler.”

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It is also noteworthy that, the Australian team will begin their tour of the West Indies where the first of the five-match T20 International series will be played on July 9. All the T20Is will take place in St Lucia as well. After that, they will play the One Day International series that continues from July 20 to 24. All the ODIs will take place in Barbados.