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Dubai: Doubts about the timely start of the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have increased, as at least one member of the STAR production team, who in the first batch to leave India for the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Monday, tested positive for coronavirus, forcing the official broadcaster to postpone its flights.
The thirteenth edition of the IPL, which is scheduled to begin on September 19, has already been shaken with thirteen members, adding at least two positive Chennai Super Kings players and Suresh Raina, a permanent member of the Chennai-based franchise, returning. to India after a war of words with the direction of the CSK.
The Indians are expected to make the most of the other departments of the STAR production team, and the first batch will leave Bengaluru, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai on Sunday, several resources were told to IANS. But STAR India asked everyone to wait on Sunday until the next plate aired.
“STAR had asked the first indian team member organization to register in the United Arab Emirates from India on 31 August, following reports of its Covid-19 tests, which were rushed on Saturday on instructions from the broadcaster. But one came back positive. and upon hearing this news, the broadcaster promptly sent some further instruction to all staff to postpone their 31 August Emirates flight to the United Arab Emirates,” IANS was told by a reliable source of BCCI-IPL.
Previously, members of the production team had to succeed in the UAE and move to quarantine. But now not only has his departure been postponed, but his quarantine era is possibly also longer once they have triumphed in the UAE.
The unexpected maxim is that the BCCI has not yet published the IPL adjustment schedule, with only 18 days for the start of the world’s most lucrative cricket competition. This, coupled with Covid’s huge amount of positive testing, has left a serious mark on the tournament, which the BCCI is desperate to organize because a lot of cash circulates there.
The BCCI-IPL source said that STAR can now wait and monitor progress with respect to the Covid effects of other members of the production team, as well as progression within the 8 competing groups now in the UAE, as well as strict protocols in Abu. Dhabi. Particularly. The fites will be played in Abu Dhabi, which will also host the opening match between CSK and the Mumbai Indians, Sharjah and Dubai. The 3 emirates have other protocols and this has extra confusing the lives of all IPL-related.
“From now on, primary adjustments to the IPL may be made after a series of positive Covid-19 control effects of team staff and now a member of the production team.You can also see adjustments in the opening match, which was most likely to be played in Abu Dhabi, between the Mumbai Indian champions and the CSK moment. One of the main reasons is that the number of positive Cases of Covid-19 is expanding in Abu Dhabi, first dubai and Sharjah have been further affected,” the source said.
“But the government here does not publish the number of separate positive cases for the seven emirates; published figures are collective for the United Arab Emirates as a whole.Therefore, it is not conceivable to say precisely which emirate is the maximum affected based on the number of However, Abu Dhabi turns out to be the maximum affected at this time, as shown through the strict protocols implemented,” an Abu Dhabi resident told IANS.
Another impediment to the IPL may be just a war of words between the governments of Dubai and Abu Dhabi over Covid protocols.As a result, Abu Dhabi has sealed all its access and exit problems connecting Dubai.Abu Dhabi can only enter if a user has valid documents proving that he or she is a negative Covid, there would be long queues on the Abu Dhabi-Dubai border while waiting for access to Abu Dhabi, all of which can have an effect on the IPL.