According to the latest report of AFP, English cricket heads are planning to deploy “giant tents” in order to make sure that rain no longer stops play.

Britain’s Daily Telegraph newspaper reports that a research has been carried out for placing mesh netting over grounds after a US company approached the England and Wales Cricket Board. The ECB had a chat with the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC), which owns Lord’s in northwest London, about the issue.

As per the quotes in the Telegraph, an ECB spokesperson said, “We would look at any new technology and ways to get games on and more people playing cricket.”

While, the new MCC chief executive, Guy Lavender said, “There is some interesting technology around trying to create protection from rain and keep the game on in wet weather. It is an enormous issue for cricket. When you think about the impact of the weather on cricket in the UK we have a part to play, as a leading club in the game, in thinking about how those new technologies develop and are tested.”

The report also suggested that there still some issues which need to be addressed such as how to handle the run-off water and safety in high winds. The technology is believed to be at least two years away from becoming a reality.