Indian players would like to leave for the UAE as soon as possible after the 5th Test was canceled amid the pandemic Kovid-19. Where the second half of the 2021 season of the Indian Premier League is to be held from 19 September. The players were to leave for the UAE by 15 September after playing the 5th Test. From captain Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul to Mohammad Siraj are a part of IPL.
According to a BCCI source, Chennai Super Kings has come into action to bring its players. The players will leave the UK on a Saturday or Sunday. Mumbai Indians will arrange chartered flights for their players, while other players are also in touch with their respective franchises. Indian players are quarantined in Manchester, there is no housekeeper arrangement for the team. Until they leave for the UAE, they will be quarantined in the hotel itself.
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In this regard, a franchise official said that the players will be quarantined for 6 days in the UAE. During this, the franchises will make arrangements for their players. We are working closely with BCCI on their arrangements. Indian players have been in their rooms in Manchester after junior physio Yogesh Parmar was infected with Kovid-19 on Thursday.
Apart from Rohit, Jasprit Bumrah and Suryakumar Yadav of Mumbai Indians will leave for Dubai from Manchester with their respective families. Ravindra Jadeja, Cheteshwar Pujara, Shardul Thakur, Moeen Ali and Sam Curran are part of the CSK squad of this Indian Premier League (IPL) which has already started their practice ahead of the second leg of the league starting 19 September . Captain Lokesh Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Mohammed Shami and David Malan from the Punjab team are in Manchester.
Kohli and company desperate to enter the safe IPL bubble, will fly directly from UK to UAE