During the forced break due to coronavirus pandemic, the Mumbai Indians (MI) skipper, Rohit Sharma has been one of the most active cricketers on social media. On one day he is seen bantering with Yuzvendra Chahal over the latter’s engagement while on another day he is seen sharing his love for wife Ritika Sajdeh. However, now it’s time for the veteran cricketer to get back on the cricket field as the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 is just more than a month away and teams have begun quarantining players in order to ready them for departure to the UAE.
Rohit has restarted his training in the gym again as he revealed in a social media post. In a picture posted on Instagram, Sharma can be seen sweating it out in the gym – what he termed as “Going low only to push yourself higher.”
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Rohit will be leading the IPL franchises MI, who will be playing as the defending champions in the upcoming season. Mumbai is the only franchised to have lifted the coveted trophy four times.
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Things will be different this time, though, as the team will be away from the comforts of their home ground. The IPL 2020 will be hosted in the UAE due to the impact of COVID-19 in India – the country with the third-highest number of coronavirus cases in the world.
The tournament is scheduled to commence on September 19 and will run until November 10. The matches will be played in three cities in the UAE – Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Sharjah.
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The teams will have to go through at least five rounds of testing before they commencing their training in the UAE as mandated in the standard operating procedures (SOPs) shared by the BCCI with the franchises.
