‘We are grateful to BCCI’: CA’s Nick Hockley on Australian gamers’ return

Cricket Australia’s interim chief government Nick Hockley on Monday stated he was “grateful” to the BCCI for guaranteeing a “safe and quick” return of Australia’s IPL contingent from India following a stopover in Maldives.
Australian gamers, together with Pat Cummins, David Warner and Steve Smith, arrived in Sydney nearly two weeks after the T20 league was indefinitely suspended following a breach in its COVID-19 bio-security bubble.
“We are delighted. We’re really grateful to the BCCI for getting them home quickly and safely. I haven’t spoken to them since they’ve landed, but obviously we’ve been in text exchange and I’m sure they’ll be very relieved and very appreciative to be home,” Hockey was quoted as saying in Sydney Morning Herald.
A bunch of 38 Australians, together with 14 gamers, had left for Maldives on May 6 after the suspension of IPL 2021 as their authorities had banned flights from India until May 15 within the wake of unprecedented surge in COVID-19 circumstances there.
Besides the gamers, the arrival group included assist employees and commentators, who have been all flown out of India to the Maldives through chartered planes after the IPL’s suspension.
The Australia cricketers, assist employees and commentators will endure a 14-day obligatory quarantine throughout lodges in Sydney earlier than leaving for his or her respective locations.
The IPL was suspended 29 matches into the season.
Chennai Super Kings’ batting coach Michael Hussey additionally headed residence on Sunday through Doha after testing destructive for COVID-19 on Friday. He had examined optimistic for the virus on May 4 and was dropped at Chennai from Delhi in an air ambulance.