Doubts about the timely start of the next edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) have been extra-major 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.
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, which, along with Covid’s large amount of positive testing, has put a serious mark on the tournament, which the BCCI is desperate to organize because there is a lot of money circulating 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 Indian champions Mumbai 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 evidenced by the strict protocols established,” an Abu Dhabi resident told IANS.
Another roadblock for IPL could be a disagreement between the Dubai and Abu Dhabi governments over Covid protocols. As a result, Abu Dhabi has sealed all its entry and exit points connecting Dubai. One can enter Abu Dhabi only if a person has valid documents that prove that he/she is Covid negative. There are said to be long queues at the Abu Dhabi-Dubai border waiting entry into Abu Dhabi. All this could impact the IPL.
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