It is barely day 4 of the Indian ladies’s cricket crew’s 14-day laborious quarantine in “tiny” lodge rooms in Brisbane however the isolation is starting to take a toll on the gamers, a BCCI official has stated.
The official instructed PTI that rooms are too small on the authorities’s institutional quarantine facility with gamers one way or the other managing to do gentle coaching.
“The rooms are approach too small. You barely handle to maneuver round and do some coaching. There aren’t any guards manning the place just like the gamers witnessed within the UK however it is vitally strict.
“The food served though is okay and there is change in menu everyday. It will be a challenging two weeks,” the official stated.
The gamers had a better time within the UK as they had been allowed to coach inside the first week of their quarantine after spending two weeks in isolation in Mumbai.
The squad arrived in Brisbane on Monday after change in tour itinerary on account of COVID-19 associated restrictions in Sydney, Perth and Melbourne, the unique venues for the sequence comprising three ODIs, a day-night Test and three T20s.
🗣️ Australia 🇦🇺 tour will assist us put together for the World Cup🏆, says #GroupIndia 🇮🇳 Captain @M_Raj03.#AUSvIND pic.twitter.com/IXGXX9xpnR
— BCCI Women (@BCCIWomen) August 28, 2021
All matches will now be performed in Queensland with the beginning of the sequence more likely to be delayed by two days to September 21.
The males’s cricket crew, which toured Australia this yr, was allowed to coach for a restricted interval throughout its quarantine. The ladies although are confined to their lodge rooms for 14 days.
Australia is among the many nations which has imposed a few of the harshest restrictions on worldwide travellers to curb COVID-19.
Seeing the positives from the present scenario, head coach Ramesh Powar tweeted a photograph of his room window with caption “AS LONG AS YOU HAVE WINDOW, LIFE IS EXCITING”.
AS LONG AS YOU HAVE WINDOW,LIFE IS EXCITING#sundayvibes pic.twitter.com/YEKQBAFYM8
— RAMESH POWAR (@imrameshpowar) September 1, 2021
The laborious quarantine had additionally taken a toll on the tennis gamers forward of the Australian Open earlier this yr.
Two-time champion Victoria Azarenka had spoken about respiratory points put up her first spherical loss in Melbourne.
She was amongst greater than 70 gamers who had been compelled to bear s 14-day quarantine upon arrival.