Cummings, Morgan to play first match, qauarentine reduced
Zabir Al MamunContributor
Posted - 2020-09-12T08:57:09+06:00
Updated - 2020-09-12T08:57:09+06:00
It was speculated that the contracted Australian and England players will miss the first part of IPL due to the ongoing bilateral series and mandatory quarantine period. With the diplomacy of the franchise, Kolkata Knight Riders has managed to play their duo Pat Cummings and Eoin Morgan from these countries, reducing the extended auarentine period and the duo set to play in the first match.
The ongoing bilateral series between England and Australia will come to end on 16 September. Whereas the 13th edition of IPL will be commence from 19th September. But as the players have to go through mandatory quarantine period therefore, they had to pass 6 days without playing. Hence , the KKR CEO has confirmed their availability on the very first match against the defending champions
on September 23.
"While they are still negotiating with the authorities, we are reconciled to the fact that we may have to quarantine our three players," Mysore was quoted as saying by ESPNcricinfo.
"They arrive on September 17, but our first game is on September 23, by which time they would've finished their (six-day) quarantine. So it's worked out well, and it's good for the tournament."
"What we did was put a plan together and shared it with the medical team at the IPL," Mysore said.
"We told them, 'they're in a bio-secure bubble in UK. 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?'
"To give credit to IPL, they took it very constructively and they have a written Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for that, which says if you're coming from a bubble to another bubble, you don't need the mandatory quarantine period,"
he added.