Will, any sports events be happening in South Africa this year, and if so, when is possible questions every avid sports fan would love to have answers to. 

Unfortunately, nobody knows. The coronavirus pandemic, for now, has changed the "playing field". Few would ever have predicted there will be a time that there will be no live sport to watch. Fans need to content themselves with television reruns of past moments of brilliance. 

Thank goodness, for eSports. It certainly helps to create some sense of normality in these uncertain times. Since lockdown, most of Tuks's athletes and coaches admit to now being more involved in on-field duels in front of screens. There are moments when it gets their adrenaline pumping.

This makes for an interesting debate. Should eSports become an Olympic sport? There is no easy answer to this. Ask ten people, and there will, in all probability, be at least six different opinions. 

All depends on what one considers the definition of sport to be. Some will argue sport is about two things - competition and physical exertion. If this is the only criteria, it is easy to be dismissive of eSports. 

In sport, things are, however, never quite that simple. The acting director TuksSport, Toby Sutcliffe, already last year said that South African sports administrators should take note of what is happening in eSports. As an example, he referred to the cult following Canada's Richard Blevins alias "Ninja" has.

Blevins used to be an avid football player. His other passion was playing videogames. After school, he decided to become a professional gamer. It did not take long before he had established himself as one of the esports legends. By last year he had more than 14 million followers and a monthly income of more than R10 million per month.  He also launched an online apparel collection, offering up t-shirts, hoodies, and posters to his fans.

It will be a mistake to think the only training "Ninja" does is to sit behind a screen every day. According to Sutcliffe, there is no real difference as to how "Ninja" prepares for competition and the way many of Tuks's athletes do. 

"He gets up at roundabout five in the morning to train for about two hours in the gym. Afterwards, he goes on to do various visual exercises while all the time following a healthy diet," Sutcliffe explained. 

"There is no getting away from the fact that esports is going to become more popular. As sports fans and administrators, we need to start accepting it. 

"Global revenues from esports, or professional video game competitions, have come close to $1.1 billion in 2019. It is 27% more than in 2018. It is mostly due to the ballooning revenues from advertising, sponsorship and media rights.

"Who knows sometime in the future South Africa could play Australia in a cricket test not on the field but in a boardroom with players sitting in front of a screen."

It is not a farfetched assumption. Cricket has always been in the vanguard of modern technology.