Debdatta Sengupta
and Manoj Bhagavatula
Multiple Authors
Apr 19, 2020, 07:39 AM ET The Covid-19 pandemic hasn't forced just professional athletes to find creative ways of training during lockdown. With public facilities shut and lockdowns of varying degree in effect in many places, people around the world are improvising to continue playing sport.
Here are some examples, in pictures:
The new hard court With tennis courts in city parks closed, a couple in Toronto adapt an almost empty waterfront parking lot into a tennis court, using a concrete barricade as a net, on April 6. Steve Russell/Toronto Star via Getty Images 'Table' tennis, anyone? Twin primary school students improvise a game of table tennis after an online class at home in Meishan, Sichuan Province of China on March 9. Liu Zhongjun/China News Service via Getty Images Who said there's no live sport? A father and son play football on their terrace in Blanes, Spain, on April 12, Easter Sunday. Miquel Benitez/Getty Images Gully Rooftop cricketChildren play cricket on the rooftop of a building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 10. Zakir Hossain Chowdhury/Barcroft Media via Getty Images Karate kids (home version) Karate students exercise under the guidance of their father, karate instructor Palestinian Khaled Sheikh al-Eid, on the roof of their home in Rafah, Gaza, on April 12. Abed Rahim Khatib/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images TT with that view? Count us in A man and a boy play table tennis on a terrace in Seville, Spain, on March 28. Niccolo Guasti/Getty Images Atleast we have football, eh? Children play football in the corridor of a building in downtown Nairobi, Kenya, on April 1. SIMON MAINA/AFP via Getty Images Because all work and no play... The silhouette of a child bowling while another bats is seen in an apartment building in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on April 3. K M Asad/LightRocket via Getty Images No traffic = More street sport An elderly man plays cricket on a road in Islamabad, Pakistan, on March 29. With traffic substantially reduced in lockdown, there is greater room and opportunity for street cricket, which is popular in the Indian subcontinent. FAROOQ NAEEM/AFP via Getty Images A bat and a ball is all you need Migrant labourers play cricket at a camp set up by the Delhi Government during lockdown in New Delhi, India, on April 9. PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images Catch it if you can? A father and daughter play catch outside Citi Field, New York, on March 26, the day the 2020 season was scheduled to begin. Al Bello/Getty Images 
