India to assist transfer Australian IPL cohort to Sri Lanka or Maldives
1 min read The cricket board (BCCI) in coronavirus-hit India will assist to maneuver Australia’s total Indian Premier League (IPL) cohort to the Maldives or Sri Lanka, Cricket Australia boss Nick Hockley stated on Wednesday.
The IPL was suspended indefinitely on Tuesday as India’s COVID-19 disaster escalates, however the resolution left Australian and different international contributors in search of methods to depart the nation.
Australia has banned travellers from India who’ve been within the nation inside the prior 14 days however CA interim Chief Executive Hockley stated the gamers would wait exterior India for approval to go house.
“So what we’re working to do and what the BCCI are working to do, and they’ve been incredibly cooperative, is working to move the entire cohort out of India,” Hockley advised reporters in Sydney.
“That’s now narrowed down to the Maldives and Sri Lanka. The BCCI are working through the final details of that at the moment and we expect that movement will happen in the next two to three days.”
Hockley added that the Indian board had additionally dedicated to arranging a constitution airplane to convey the Australian cricketers house.
Australia has banned travellers from India till May 15.
The Australian Cricketers’ Association confirmed former Australia batsman Mike Hussey, a coach for one of many IPL groups, had examined constructive for COVID-19.
ACA boss Todd Greenberg stated that so far as he was conscious, Hussey was the one Australian concerned within the IPL to contract the virus.
