CEO confirms entire contingent has gone into week-long isolation after Monday’s two positive tests
Wednesday’s IPL game between the Chennai Super Kings and the Rajasthan Royals is on the verge of being rescheduled after the Super Kings informed the organisers that the squad had gone into a week-long quarantine from Monday.
K Viswanathan, the Super Kings’ chief executive officer, told ESPNcricinfo that the franchise had written to the IPL on Monday informing them that the entire Super Kings contingent was isolating immediately after it emerged two people including bowling coach L Balaji had tested positive after yesterday’s round of tests.
The IPL has made no announcement yet, but it will be the second match to be rescheduled after Monday’s game between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Kolkata Knight Riders was rescheduled after the Knight Riders’ spinner Varun Chakravarthy and seam bowler Sandeep Warrier tested positive for Covid-19.
Incidentally Viswanathan was originally part of the three people to test positive in the tests conducted on May 2, which was a day after the Super Kings lost a last-ball thriller to defending champions Mumbai Indians in Delhi. Then, yesterday’s round of follow-up testing cleared Viswanathan, but Balaji and the cleaner of the team’s bus tested positive for the second time in two days.
“The IPL SOPs say if any member of the team is infected the rest of the group needs to isolate for seven days. So we have informed the IPL on Monday,” Viswanathan said.
Viswanathan confirmed that the rest of the Super Kings’ contingent had also been tested on Monday and everyone barring Balaji and the bus cleaner had cleared the tests.
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Nagraj Gollapudi is news editor at ESPNcricinfo
Source: ESPN Crickinfo