This newspaper and all supporters of West Indies cricket are pleased at news that the New Zealand Cricket Board and Cricket West Indies are discussing plans for the Caribbean team to tour New Zealand later this year.

We hear that the COVID-19 biosecure template established in England for the recent West Indies tour of that country, as well as the current England home series against Pakistan, will be utilized to protect players, support staff, officials, et al.

That pattern, we note, is being followed by the Twenty20 Caribbean Premier League (CPL) which begins in Trinidad on Tuesday.

New Zealand is particularly well-placed to host international cricket because of that country's success so far in containing the spread of the novel coronavirus. Hopefully, that success will be sustained.

Well if Hety and Paul and DMB used emotion to decide whether to tour or not, don’t expect them travelling to NZ