Team India even ready to be in quarantine to save Australia series: BCCI official
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With the COVID -19 situation cricket nations calendar has been all wiped out and team India is even ready to quarantine themselves for fourteen days to play cricket according to the Board of Control for Cricket in India treasurer Arun Dhumal.
‘’There is no choice – everyone will have to do that. You would want to resume the cricket,” he said.
“Two weeks is not that long a lockdown. That would be ideal for any sportsman because when you are in quarantine for such a long period, then going to another country and having a two-week lockdown it would be a good thing to do. We’ll have to see what the norms are posted this lockdown,” he added.
Cricket Australia had proposed a five-match Test series earlier this year. While Dhumal did not rule out the idea, of playing more ond day and t-20 matches to earn more revenue but they will decide on it once the tour is finalized
“Once we are sure when cricket will resume, then only will we be able to make a final call on that,” he said.
“That discussion [on five Tests] took place before the lockdown. If there is a window available it would be up to the boards to decide whether they wanted to go for a Test match or maybe two ODIs or maybe two T20s. Given the revenue loss they will have on account of lockdown, post-lockdown they will want to have revenue and revenue most likely will come from ODIs or T20s much more than a Test match.”
‘’For any board for that matter, there has been a lot of revenue loss on account of this lockdown and COVID-19, so they would need to think about that,” he added.
