During a recent chat with ESPNCricinfo, Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) CEO Venky Mysore, the players won’t have to undergo the IPL’s mandatory quarantine period of six days given they are traveling from one bio-secure bubble into another. It means the players traveling to Dubai will be available to their teams from day one. However, KKR’s players – the team is based in Abu Dhabi – though will need to quarantine for six days under local government rules.

Mysore also said negotiations were still on with the Abu Dhabi authorities in order to shorten the mandatory six-day quarantining period. There are three players – England captain Eoin Morgan and batsman Tom Banton and Australian fast bowler Pat Cummins, who will be joining KKR’s squad in Abu Dhabi. KKR and Mumbai are the only two teams based in Abu Dhabi.

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Describing the same, KKR CEO said, “While they are still negotiating with the authorities, we are reconciled to the fact that we may have to quarantine our three players. They arrive on September 17, but our first game is on September 23, by which time they would’ve finished their [concessional six-day] quarantine. So it’s worked out well, and it’s good for the tournament.”

Mysore said “receptiveness” from the IPL governing council towards the idea of ensuring a smooth transfer of players from one biosecure bubble in the UK to another in the UAE has made this possible. Earlier, Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) chairman, Sanjeev Churiwala also went on to confirm that the players coming from the UK wouldn’t have to quarantine under IPL rules.

Explaining it further, Mysore said, “What we did was put a plan together and shared it with the medical team at the IPL. What if we brought them on a sanitised charter flight and we took care of all the elements of immigration, testing, contactless stuff, and everything to allow them to come right into a bubble here?'”

The same holds true of what KKR aims to do for their IPL-bound CPL players from Trinbago Knight Riders. Knight Riders have Andre Russell, Sunil Narine and Chris Green joining them from Trinidad.

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Talking about the CPL players, Mysore said, “We’re bringing all our players on a charter straight to Abu Dhabi. Even the smallest of detail like how they will go from hotel to airport – they go on a bus with a driver who is part of the bubble – straight to the tarmac. That is the level of detailing we have gone into, because of which they have waived the quarantine period.”