Australia vs India: First Test at Adelaide in danger after fresh COVID-19 outbreak
Melbourne: The first Test of the upcoming Border-Gavaskar Trophy has come beneath shadow as Australian gamers, together with Test captain Tim Paine and Matthew Wade, have been compelled to enter self isolation following a recent coronavirus outbreak.
A cluster of Covid-19 circumstances in Adelaide, the venue of the primary Test between Australia and India, has prompted different states to shut their borders with South Australia, stated a report in cricket.com.au.
The governments of Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory have introduced border closures, with Queensland to impose a two-week lodge quarantine on all guests from Adelaide from 11.59pm on Monday.
The guidelines imply all that Western Australia gamers, who took half within the current Marsh Sheffield Shield rounds in Adelaide, should now self-isolate for 2 weeks and so Paine, Wade and their team-mates within the Tasmania squad, have gone into isolation.
South Australia introduced the brand new Covid-19 cluster on Sunday, with the variety of circumstances rapidly rising to 17 on Monday.
Meanwhile, Cricket Australia has stated that it’s monitoring the scenario. “There is ongoing monitoring but that’s the end of the story,” a CA spokeswoman was quoted as saying by The Sydney Morning Herald on the pink-ball Test.
The Indian contingent, in addition to the Australian gamers who took half within the Indian Premier League within the UAE, are in two-week quarantine in Sydney since final Thursday. The gamers are, nonetheless, capable of practice after returning unfavourable of their Covid-19 exams.
The two groups will compete in three ODIs and as many T20Is — starting November 27 — earlier than the four-Test sequence.
The first two ODIs might be performed on the Sydney Cricket Ground whereas the third ODI and the primary T20I might be performed on the Manuka Oval in Canberra. The closing two T20Is will then be performed on the SCG.
Virat Kohli-led Team India will start the title defence of the trophy with the pink-ball Test in Adelaide from December 17. It might be adopted by Tests on the Melbourne Cricket Ground (December 26), the Sydney Cricket Ground (January 7) and the Gabba (January 15).
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