Implications for cricket from Covid-19 are shaping as a new-normal as the 2020-21 season gets underway in the southern hemisphere.
Australian authorities are using new bio-security protocols during the Australia-New Zealand women's series due to start this week in Australia.
New Zealand will play three Twenty20 games and three one-day internationals against the Australians in Brisbane.
Gone are the days when sixes hit into the crowd and lobbed back by fans to players on the field will see a rapid transfer of the ball back to the bowler for play to resume.
Instead, the ball will be returned to the umpire for a deep clean. Both the umpire and fielder will then be required to disinfect their hands with sanitiser before the bowler can get back into action.
Drinks bottles won't be the only things getting run onto the ground at every conceivable moment. There is a fair chance umpires will be needing sanitiser top-ups. What that will do for over-rates is anyone's guess?
The implications for players moving between states with their different quarantine requirements have been apparent during preparations for the women's series.
Players from New South Wales and Victoria had to leave their homes for two weeks ahead of their transfer to Queensland to undergo quarantine.
Cricket Australia's medical man Alex Kountouris told Australian media, "Every single person needs to be risk-ratified. Look at their households and what their families are doing and we've had to move people out of their houses so they can isolate from their families."
He said the model Cricket Australia was using was most similar to that employed by the National Rugby League.
But it's not only on the field players have to be careful. They have to look after their gear bags at all times, they have to wear masks to and from grounds, sanitise if anything happens to touch their backs.