The Indian Premier League (IPL) chairman Brijesh Patel on Tuesday said the BCCI will be arranging a way for the return of foreign players after the league was suspended indefinitely due to a COVID-19 outbreak in its bio-bubble. The BCCI decided to suspend the tournament after Sunrisers Hyderabad’s wicketkeeper-batsman Wriddhiman Saha tested positive for COVID-19 along with Delhi Capitals’ veteran leg-spinner Amit Mishra.
Talking about the same, as per the quotes in PTI, Brijesh said, “We need to send them home and we will find a way to do that.” The foreigners involved in the cash-rich T20 league are concerned about returning to their respective countries due to travel restrictions imposed in the wake of a deadly resurgence of the pandemic in India. The BCCI had assured foreign cricketers of a safe return earlier as well.
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On Monday, cricketer-turned-commentator Michael Slater escaped to the Maldives and launched a scathing attack on Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison for forbidding its citizens to return from India, calling the travel ban, till May 15, a “disgrace”. The Australian borders have been shut with all the commercial flights from India also been banned because of the massive COVID-19 surge here which has led to all the players, support staff, and commentators.
If our Government cared for the safety of Aussies they would allow us to get home. It's a disgrace!! Blood on your hands PM. How dare you treat us like this. How about you sort out quarantine system. I had government permission to work on the IPL but I now have government neglect
— Michael Slater (@mj_slats) May 3, 2021
Skater’s tweet read: “If our Government cared for the safety of Aussies they would allow us to get home. It’s a disgrace!! Blood on your hand’s PM. How dare you treat us like this. How about you sort out the quarantine system. I had government permission to work on the IPL but I now have government neglect.”
A couple of days back, Australian all-rounder Glenn Maxwell said that the cricketers from down under wouldn’t mind traveling in the same chartered flight that would take India, New Zealand, and England cricketers to the UK after the IPL.
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India and New Zealand are scheduled to be locking horns with each other in the final of the World Test Championship from June 18 and will fly to England after the completion of the tournament. On Monday, Chennai Super Kings bowling coach L Balaji along with Kolkata Knight Riders bowlers Sandeep Warrier and Varun Chakravarthy had also tested positive for Covid-19.
