Australia's cricketers stick with handshakes despite virus threat

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Australia's cricketers will continue to shake hands, coach Justin Langer said despite England enforcing a strictfist-bump only policy to prevent spread of the coronavirus, AFP reported.

Australia's three-game One-Day series against New Zealand begins Friday and Langer said there were no plans to change how the team interacts in the dressing room or on the field.

"No, we'll keep shaking hands [...] there's plenty of hand sanitiser in the Australian kits," he told cricket.com.au following the team's 3-0 series loss in South Africa.

"I'm sure we'll just keep shaking hands and move on from that," he added.

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