Mumbai: During the deliberation between Indian cricket boards (BCCI) and their English partners, the ECB, the last offer the option to postpone the Manchester test match with a few days – BCCI bid could not accept.
“Given how Covid’s pregnancy period works, two days will not make a difference.
Second, a day delay in Old Trafford will mean a day delay for the start of the Indian Premier League (IPL).
There are more at stake here not only for BCCI but for the whole ecosystem , “The source close to the development told toi after the cancellation of the fifth test.
The next BCCI focus is to shift the player – which has now been tested negatively in three RT-PCR tests back-to-back – becoming a separate bio-safe bubble that will move from Manchester to UAE in 48 hours and join the ‘bio-bubble franchise who has been waiting for two weeks now.
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Both BCCI and the ECB have now learned from errors that can be avoided.
In the BCCI case, despite conducting a very smooth IPL in the UAE in 2020 by hiring an IT safety company and health to create sophisticated bio-bubble, the Council of India did not repeat the same exercise at IPL 2021, thus leading to the IPL called in Midway.
Similarly, the ECB – after hiring the same IT safety and health company in 2020 for the series against West Indies – not repeating the same exercise in the final five test series against India.
Read Many Indian players who want to join the IPL Bubble at the end of the final test in Manchester are called for Covid’s fear, the Indian team sighed relieved.
But there is still anxiety that is underlying in the camp.
The players now want to join the Each IPL franchise earliest in the UAE for the second half of the maturity IPL has learned their lessons in a difficult way.
After being bitten twice shy, BCCI now intends to take maximum precautions when IPL Phase-2 is getting closer.
“The growing importance that IPL is followed by the T20 World Cup, which will also be held by BCCI.
So, responsibility and responsibility will be more on BCCI,” they said with developments.
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