Australian leg-spinner Adam Zampa used to play for the Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) squad when he pulled out of the IPL 2021 season along with his compatriot Kane Richardson. The duo cited bio bubble fatigue as the reason due to COVID. However, Zampa opened up on how once during that season, a fan breached the bio bubble to get their autograph and that made both Zampa and Richardson to talk to the RCB owners before pulling out of the league as well.

Speaking on The Final Word Cricket Podcast, Adam Zampa said, “One day we were sitting by the pool and a fan came to ask for an autograph and the security came running. We thought if it was so easy to break the bubble, this competition will not last beyond this week. Lets just tell the owners what we think about. Luckily we were on the plane to Melbourne via Qatar when Australia was locked out and the IPL was binned four days later.”

However, Adam Zampa said that cricketers like him are judged for pulling out of the IPL. But he also believes he was right as the tournament was halted soon after due to increasing COVID-19 cases as well. Zampa also revealed that having to quarantine during the COVID-19 period had already taken a toll on him physically and mentally as well. He also spoke about getting to know how badly the second wave of COVID-19
affected India through the news.

“Looking back at the IPL that me and Kane pulled out of, we had done a week’s quarantine into India and putting on the telly and it was the ABC channel talking about the covid situation in India. We looked at each other and were like. What are you gonna do?” He had a young family and we were pretty jaded from a year long into quarantine anyway so I was pretty tired,” Adam Zampa concluded.