The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has invited criticism for not sustaining the sanctity of the bio-bubble protocols through the ongoing Pakistan Super League, the place Australian participant Fawad Ahmed examined optimistic for COVID-19, resulting in the postponement of a match on Monday.
Many experiences within the Pakistan media blamed PCB for the optimistic check incident which has forged a shadow on the league. The Board, although, has made it clear the match can be accomplished on schedule by March 22.
The media questioned the PCB’s declare of implementing a strict bio-secure bubble for the group gamers and officers, their households and different stakeholders within the competitors.
“Some families of players have even been allowed into the bio secure bubble without undergoing any mandatory quarantine period,” one report claimed.
“There are also regular events and dinners being held at the team hotel while some players are even ordering food from outside,” one other report claimed.
The ‘Express’ newspaper additionally famous that whereas the groups have been presupposed to be in a bubble however when the gamers got here to the bottom for matches, the groundsmen and different important workers on the stadium weren’t in a bubble and went to their houses on a regular basis.
The media has additionally had a subject day questioning the PCB’s choice to permit Pakistan speedster Wahab Riaz and West Indies’ Darren Sammy to play the primary match of the PSL for his or her group Peshawar Zalmi after they breached the COVID-19 protocol.
Both the gamers had shaken palms and hugged their group proprietor, Javed Afridi, which was a breach of the COVID-19 protocols of the Board.
The incident occurred throughout a coaching session on the outer grounds of the National Stadium earlier than the PSL started .Initially the Board put each of them in a three-day isolation and made it clear they’d solely play for his or her franchise after finishing the isolation interval and present process two unfavorable exams however apparently after a risk by the group administration and proprietor to boycott the match on the eve of their first match, the PCB modified its choice and allowed them to go to the bottom.
Wahab even led the Peshawar group.
A PCB official, concerned within the implementation of the protocols, asserted the Board was doing its greatest within the given circumstances.
He stated the board was additionally spending some huge cash on sustaining the bio-secure bubble and having common exams of the stakeholders.
“We have a strict bio secure bubble for all teams and we have regular testing and we have now even made it mandatory for all players and officials to have PCR tests every four days. But the fact is how Fawad Ahmed tested positive we don’t know because no one can say for certain how he contracted the virus,” he stated.
