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India’s IPL stars off to Dubai after second successive destructive RT-PCR stories

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The Indian cricketers, contracted to play the Indian Premier League (IPL), left for the UAE in chartered and industrial flights after returning destructive RT-PCR exams for the second time in two days.
The journey preparations have been made by gamers’ respective franchises.
The gamers started their early departures for the rest of the IPL, beginning September 19, after India’s fifth Test in opposition to England was postponed indefinitely following Covid-19 outbreak within the Indian camp.
The gamers, led by Virat Kohli, refused to take the sphere regardless of testing destructive for the virus as they’d apprehensions that enjoying members may contract the virus after assistant physio Yogesh Parmar examined constructive simply forward of the ultimate recreation.
“The good news is that all the players and support staff members have now tested negative for the RT-PCR for the second time. The reports arrived late on Friday evening and most of them are already on their way to Dubai for the IPL,” a senior BCCI official advised PTI.
“Two non-IPL players Abhimanyu Easwaran and Arjan Nagwaswalla will be flying out on Monday with the rest of the support staff. They will be flying to their respective Indian cities via Dubai and will take a commercial flight,” the senior official stated.
The gamers began departing in clusters — some in constitution flight organized by their franchises like Mumbai Indians and Sunrisers Hyderabad whereas Chennai Super Kings cricketers took industrial flight.
“Mumbai Indians flew in three of its Indian contingent members, captain Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, and Suryakumar Yadav, to Abu Dhabi on a private charter flight. The trio, along with their families, arrived today morning and will now undergo six days of hard quarantine, starting today as per the IPL’s guidelines,” MI issued a press release.
“All members had returned negative RT-PCR results before departure. A new RT PCR test was undertaken upon arrival at Abu Dhabi, which are negative as well,” it additionally said.
RCB captain Virat Kohli and his premier pacer Mohammed Siraj additionally took a constitution flight from Manchester.
“Keeping the protection and safety of our gamers because the utmost precedence, Royal Challengers Bangalore have organized a particular constitution flight for captain Virat Kohli and Mohammed Siraj to make sure their protected transit to the UAE.
“The players will be flying out at 11.30 PM (UK time) on Saturday and will arrive in Dubai early Sunday morning. Both, Virat and Siraj will undergo 6-day quarantine in Dubai before joining the team bio-secure bubble,” RCB stated in a launch.