BCB plans no quarantine for foreign coaches
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|| CF Correspondent ||
Bangladesh head coach Russell Domingo and fielding coach Ryan Cook arrived at Dhaka on Sunday ahead of the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. Tigers bowling coach Ottis Gibson is expected to arrive on July 8.
Bangladesh Cricket Board announced on Saturday that individual training at home of cricket is scheduled to resume on September 9 while BCB sources confirmed that they are trying to see whether the foreign coaches can come into the individual training when it resumes after a break due to corona precaution.
As a result BCB authorities are talking with government health authorities so that if the foreign coaches get a negative report they should be able to start their session with their charges, without completing 14-day quarantine that had been made mandatory by the government for any travelers coming from abroad.
They are coming with corona negative report and we are corresponding with concerned authorities so that if they get corona negative report they should be able to join the individual training session with going through the individual training session,’’ said a BCB official.
The Bangladesh Cricket Board on Thursday decided to stop individual practice sessions for three days as part of COVID-19 precaution, with some of the support staff showing symptoms.
The BCB were initially reluctant to allow cricketers to train but eventually agreed, due to the insistence of a few national cricketers as they were eager to start training to prepare for the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka.
BCB is planning a week-long residential camp ahead of the upcoming tour of Sri Lanka. The residential camp is set to begin on September 21 while the BCB will conduct a COVID-19 Tests in three phases ahead of the tour.
BCB earlier stated that sample for COVID-19 test will be collected from national team players and probables and relevant support personnel on September 7.
BCB said the initiative is taken as part of the BCB’s corona virus management plan and to ensure player safety for training sessions leading up to the forthcoming Tour of Sri Lanka.The Bangladesh's tour of Sri Lanka which was scheduled for July-August was
