"Our experience shows that in the past when this has happened with roadworks people go elsewhere to shop because there are lots of small towns not so faraway, and only a percentage of them come back afterwards, " she said.
"I don't think that we are too faraway from him being given the green light for him togo and play cricket in much the same way that he was at the start of the season, " Watkinson said.
Proposing to revise the collective-bargaining agreement in order to shift the pay scale toward veterans and away from rookies is, as far as labor negotiations go, relatively inoffensive.