The battle between Australia's sporting codes is fierce but will coronavirus teach them to play nice?

A crowded house with two parents trying to work while restless kids beg to be taken to a playground they have been told a hundred times is now closed. Stay up-to-date on the coronavirus outbreak Download the ABC News app and subscribe to our range of news alerts for the latest on how the pandemic is impacting the world Cricket has, at least for now, the T20 World Cup, a lucrative Test series against India and the start of the Big Bash League to accommodate, all events that could minimise its losses. The reaction of the AFL's chief executive officer Gillon McLachlan to suggestions his game could be locked out of stadiums was in the spirit of the times: "I hope in the end this is bigger than all of that and I've been talking to other sports on other fronts, we will all work together …". The coffee sprayed from snorting noses upon hearing this sentiment belonged to the organisers of Australia's failed 2018/2022 World Cup bid who felt they were blocked at every turn by the AFL over stadium availability and FIFA's requirement that rival sports pause their seasons.. Wisely, Cricket Australia chief executive Kevin Roberts rose above the fray suggesting his organisation would cooperate with the AFL if it needed a venue for a December grand final.