Bangladesh cricketers duo – Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman, who were featured in the Indian Premier League, left for home on a chartered flight on Thursday as well. With Bangladesh imposing a travel ban on India, there were concerns on how they would reach home.
Meanwhile, sources in Rajasthan Royals and Kolkata Knight Riders – both the teams that Mustafizur Rahman and Shakib Al Hasan played in the IPL 2021 has confirmed to Sportstar that both the players have left today. Mustafizur took the flight from Delhi whereas Shakib will join him from Ahmedabad.
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“Both the players travelled together on Thursday afternoon and we ensured that things were all fine,” a source said.
Meanwhile, the BCCI was in talks with the High Commission and the authorities to make sure that the overseas players reached home safe and without any hassle as the country is currently fighting against the second wave of the deadly COVID-19 pandemic.
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“For the BCCI, the focus is to make sure that everyone reaches home safe and we will do everything to ensure that happens,” a Board official said. “The players underwent RT-PCR tests and once the reports were negative, they were allowed to fly out.”
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Both Shakib Al Hasan and Mustafizur Rahman will now have to go through a mandatory 14-day quarantine period in Dhaka. The Bangladesh Cricket Board although tried to convince the authorities so that the quarantine period could be less, it did not happen as well. “As per the government protocol, they will have to go through a mandatory institutional quarantine in one of the hotels in Dhaka,” a source said.
However, the IPL 2021 got postponed after several players got affected by Covid-19 as it broke out inside the bio-bubble in multiple cities like Ahmedabad and New Delhi as well. It started with two Kolkata Knight Riders players Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier have tested positive and that led to the cancellation of their match against Royal Challengers Bangalore. Soon after, three support staff of CSK reported positive and later Amit Mishra and Wriddhiman Saha have eventually tested positives too that led to the cancellation of the cash-rich league for the time being.
