The recent reports have suggested that all the players, officials, and administrators, who arrived in Trinidad and Tobago for the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) 2020 have tested negative for COVID-19. The CPL management explained that the teams will now be kept in quarantine in the official hotel for the next two weeks and undergo regular testing. If anyone from in the group is found to have contracted the coronavirus they will be removed from the hotel and placed in further isolation.

Informing the same, CPL operations director, Michael Halls said, “It has been a colossal effort by all involved to get everyone safely into Trinidad and Tobago. Our main priority is the health and well-being of all those involved in CPL and the wider population in the host country, to have got through this first step without any cases is encouraging news, but we will remain vigilant.”

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Players, coaches, and support staff have traveled to the Caribbean from various parts of the cricket world.

The West Indies team recently suffered a loss in a three-match Test series in England last month, the first international cricket to be played after the sport was shuttered globally. The Caribbean cricketer will have to undergo some time in quarantine in Britain before the series started, and had to remain inside so-called bio-secure bubbles at match venues.

According to the scheduled, the CPL 2020 will be commencing on August 18 and 33 games will be played at two venues in Trinidad. The first match has last year’s runners-up, the Guyana Amazon Warriors, playing the Trinbago Knight Riders. The final will take place on Sept. 10.

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Barbados Tridents are the defending champions. The other franchises are St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots, St. Lucia Zouks, and Jamaica Tallawahs.