AUS vs IND | New three-day lockdown in Brisbane places 4th Test in danger

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A brand new three-day lockdown in Brisbane has put Cricket Australia in a spot of trouble because it makes determined efforts to carry the fourth and closing Test towards India within the Queensland state capital from January 15.
The Lockdown was introduced lower than 24 hours after prime cricket board officers from India and Australia have been engaged in a dialogue on leisure of laborious quarantine measures for the guests.

“Cricket Australia executives are urgently trying to determine the impact of a three-day lockdown in Brisbane on next week’s fourth Test at the Gabba, which was already under a cloud because of India’s hesitation to fly north and be subjected to tighter bio-security restrictions,” the newspaper reported.
“A hotel quarantine worker’s positive test to the more contagious UK strain of COVID-19 is the latest spanner in the works for CA’s hopes to close out the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series at the Gabba,” it additional wrote.
While Cricket Australia have been prepared to permit a capability crowd of 36,000, the fluid well being state of affairs may warrant a change within the spectator coverage.

“The health scare in the city, however, has left those attendance caps in jeopardy,” the newspaper acknowledged.
On Thursday, The BCCI wrote to CA in search of leisure in laborious quarantine protocol of Brisbane, reminding the host board that the guests are completed with the strict isolation that was agreed upon firstly of the tour.
The quarantine guidelines in Brisbane will prohibit the gamers to simply their resort rooms after day’s play.
CA has already verbally assured the Indians that “a deal” has been “signed off on by the Queensland government to allow players and staff out of their rooms to mingle together inside the hotel when not playing or training will remain in place for their week in the city.”
However, it’s learnt that BCCI desires a written assurance on the matter. In case, Brisbane cannot host the Test or Indians refuse to journey, Sydney would be the again up venue.