West Indies are 'increasingly confident' their tour of England will take place in July after their players on Tuesday returned to training in Barbados.
Jason Holder and members of his team practised in small groups and West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave now expects the three-Test series behind closed doors at the Ageas Bowl and Emirates Old Trafford from July 8 to be confirmed by the end of this week.
'Based on the information we have everyone is getting increasingly confident the tour will take place this summer,' said Grave. '
We are in the final stages of discussions with ECB and we expect to hear from them shortly. 'Our next board of directors teleconference is on May 28 and if the tour is to take place as currently planned we would need to have their approval and support by then in order to select the players and get the charter flight logistics in place.'
Meanwhile Sportsmail understands England's three match 50-over one-day series against Ireland due to take place between the Test series against West Indies and Pakistan under ECB plans will now take place at Southampton rather than Manchester.
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