L. Balaji Has Also Been Tested Positive For Covid-19

The IPL (Indian Premier League) match on Wednesday between Rajasthan Royals and Chennai Super Kings will be rescheduled by the BCCI (Board of Control for Cricket) after L. Balaji (bowling coach) was tested positive for the COVID-19. Now, the players of Chennai Super Kings are in quarantine.

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As per SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) people who come in contact with an infected player have to stay in six days of hard quarantine and need to have three negative reports of the COVID-19.

BCCI senior official said to the PTI on conditions of anonymity: "Tomorrow's match at the Arun Jaitley Stadium between CSK and RR will be rescheduled as per SOP rules. As Balaji was in contact with the players, all of them have gone into hard quarantine. They are supposed to be tested every day."

All Chennai Super Kings players are tested negative for the COVID-19 RT-PCR tests.

After the Monday match between the Royal Challengers Bangalore and the Kolkata Knight Riders, the game was postponed just because the players of the Kolkata Knight Riders were tested positive for the COVID-19, and the two players who were tested positive for the COVID-19 is Sandeep Warrier and Varun Chakravarthy.

The match between the SunRisers Hyderabad vs Mumbai Indians has been hosted in Delhi, today evening.

Recently, the Mumbai Indians had played the match against the Chennai Super Kings on Saturday but this was clearly said that no one came in direct contact with L Balaji (bowling coach).

Viswanathan said: "From our end, we had informed that Mr. Balaji has tested positive and as per SOP our players have been isolated."

The BCCI source said: "Even MI players are at risk having played CSK. BCCI ideally should reschedule today's game also. Normally symptoms start showing mostly on 6th or 7th day after you have come in contact with the infected person." 

The official said: "What do you do for seven days of hard quarantine for multiple hotel staff as you would need at least four hotels to create a new bio bubble." 

If the tournament is going to move down to Mumbai, then Kolkata and Bengaluru will be missing their quota of matches. Another view is there to keep an eye on the games in the venues currently being used as Ahmedabad and Delhi.

A franchise official said: "If you see when matches were being held in Mumbai and Chennai, things were under control. The trouble started after teams began were traveling from one city to another."