Mumbai Indians players including skipper Rohit Sharma will be leaving for Dubai on Saturday while Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and Punjab Kings (PBKS) have also made individual travel arrangements with BCCI’s plans for a charter flight on September 15 aborted after the cancellation of the fifth Test in Manchester. For MI, the other players who would be leaving for the UAE with their respective families are Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav.

Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shardul Thakur, Moeen Ali, and Sam Curran are part of the CSK squad. PBKS skipper, K L Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Mohammad Shami, and Dawid Malan are the other Punjab players who are in Manchester.

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Talking about the arrangements, a senior IPL official said, “The BCCI isn’t arranging any charter flights since the Test match has been canceled. So every franchise is making its own travel arrangement. Since they are all flying commercial, they will be doing six days of room quarantine.”

Before COVID struck the Indian team, the IPL franchises were planning for a bubble-to-bubble transfer with players of both teams taking a chartered flight to UAE.

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Describing the same, as per the quotes in PTI, CSK CEO Kasi Viswanathan said, “Charter flight is not a possibility anymore. We are trying to get their tickets done for a commercial flight tomorrow. When they land, they will do six-day quarantine like the rest of the players.” Punjab Kings CEO Satish Menon said, “In all likelihood, our players will fly out from Manchester tomorrow.”

Indian players have been in their rooms in Manchester since junior physio Yogesh Parmar tested positive on Thursday.