not prepared

“You know, it’s going to be loud, it’s going to be at night, it might be cold. So, you know, just a little bit of I think that they just play into it, kind of like the Seahawks. So, it’s a big challenge for us, but we’ve played in some hostile environments this whole season, so it shouldn’t be anything that we’re not prepared for.”

Brenda Stevenson of Unite the Union said her members are “not prepared to take anything less than pay parity”.

And, on Friday, chairman Mohsin Naqvi said the PCB is not prepared to accept a hybrid solution.

Mr Hutton said: “The pandemic did have negative impact right across the board, we were not prepared for it. In many ways we were fumbling around in the dark to make sure we did the best by our young people.”

In the end, realpolitik triumphed, with Kenya not prepared to jeopardise its closer ties with Turkey, which saw the two countries sign a military co-operation agreement in July.