South Africa and Rajasthan Royals all-rounder Chris Morris has recently recalled the panic situation in the camp. And, now he is “relieved” to return home safely after witnessing “chaos” in the camp once players started affecting by COVID-19 in the IPL bio-bubble. Morris, along with his other South African players has returned home, after the IPL was suspended for an indefinite time period.
He further added that they got to know about Kolkata Knight Riders players Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier got infected on Sunday night.
“Look, obviously I’m relieved,” Morris, who is currently undergoing a 10-day mandatory quarantine period at home, said to iol.co.za. “The moment we heard that, when players are testing positive, inside the bubble, then everyone starts asking questions. The alarm bells definitely started going off for all of us.”
“By Monday when they postponed that game (between Kolkata and Royal Challengers Bangalore), we knew the tournament was under pressure to continue,” he again shared.
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After the news of Varun and Sandeep, Sunrisers Hyderabad’s wicketkeeper-batsman Wridhimman Saha and Delhi Capitals’ Amit Mishra has also been tested positive on Tuesday which led the board to take the decision of cancelling the T20 league as well. Along with this, Chennai Super Kings’ bowling coach L Balaji and batting coach Michael Hussey have also been affected by the virus.
“I was chatting to our team doctor, whose room was across the hallway from my mine in the hotel, and Kumar (Sangakarra, the Royals’ head coach) came around the corner, and drew his finger across his throat, and then we knew it was over. And then it was chaos! The England guys especially were panicking because they needed to isolate in hotels in England first, and apparently there weren’t any rooms,” said Chris Morris.
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Meanwhile, the cash-rich league faced a lot of criticisms because of taking place amid a crunch time of the global pandemic COVID-19 which has been affecting more than 3 lakhs people daily and over 3000 people are dying every day in the country as well.
“For me, this was always a two-fold thing; on the one hand we’re playing a tournament, all happy and smiling in a bubble, while outside so many people are suffering,” Chris Morris said. “On the flip side of it, there was the fact that by playing, we were ensuring people actually stayed at home, watched us and at least had something to smile about or something else to think about – even if it was being unhappy with how we played in a game – for three hours each night.”
