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With an eye fixed on the third Test between India and Australia, beginning on the Sydney Cricket Ground on January 7, Cricket Australia is carefully monitoring the scenario after Sydney reported a contemporary Covid-19 outbreak. The state governments are planning to tighten the borders throughout the nation and power early contingency planning across the SCG Test within the new 12 months.
CA may additionally consider shifting opener David Warner from Sydney to Melbourne to keep away from any potential additional border restrictions. Warner is continuous his restoration from the groin damage that dominated him out of the primary Test.
According to an ESPNcricinfo report, a number of Sydney-based members of the published manufacturing groups in Adelaide have been stood down as a precaution on Friday morning, the commentator Brett Lee flew residence to Sydney, and three members of the SEN commentary crew — Gavin Robertson, Brad Haddin and Matt White — left Adelaide.
CA issued a directive to all media overlaying the Test match to report if they’d visited the northern seashores area prior to now three weeks. The cluster, centred round Avalon seaside to Sydney’s north, is at the moment at 28 circumstances and counting, though New South Wales Health has efficiently contact-traced all however one in every of these.
“There’s been lots of discussion and meetings of our medical experts, but this is the reason why throughout the summer we’ve had our players in bubbles in the hub,” ESPNcricinfo quoted CA’s interim chief government Nick Hockley as saying to SEN Radio.
“We’re monitoring the situation; we’re not panicking at all, staying calm. Adelaide, a few weeks ago we had that pizza-shop outbreak and through that process we worked very calmly to get the players in Adelaide on a charter plane, out of Adelaide within 24 hours and that really saved the summer.
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“We’ve acquired the Sydney Test and the BBL in NSW after that, so the very fact we’re right here in Adelaide, we have got the following Test in Melbourne, it is actually watch, wait and see and I believe the governments across the nation have dealt with the pandemic so properly, so we’ll watch, study and keep in contact,” he added.
Australia and India are at the moment taking part in the day-night Test at Adelaide Oval after which each groups will head to Melbourne to play the second Test which begins on December 26. Sydney will host the third Test of the collection.
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