Chennai Super Kings are scheduled to begin training for IPL 2020 from September 4. This date is subject to the team passing two additional Covid-19 tests, mandatory by the IPL after 13 members of its contingent, including two Indian players, tested positive for the last time. week. Those who tested positive last week are staying in a separate hotel and will not be part of these new tests, but all the other members of their camp tested negative in the first of two additional tests, conducted on Monday. The second test is on September 3.
The 13 staff members who tested positive will undergo two new tests only after their mandatory two-week quarantine.
The Super Kings are the only team that has yet to start training after being forced to extend their quarantine period. They landed in Dubai on August 21 and were initially expected to start training on August 28.
“We will start [training] for September 4. We have another test on September 3, “Super Kings CEO Kasi Viswanathan told ESPNcricinfo. Viswanatahan said that since Super Kings was the only team to test positive, the IPL had” increased “the number of tests for five, two more than those carried out by the other seven franchises.
According to the IPL’s Covid-19 testing protocols, all tournament participants are required to take three tests upon landing in the UAE: days one (landing), three and six. If all three tests are negative, teams can begin training.
Viswanathan also said that the two players who tested positive last week are expected to start training once they have passed the mandatory testing process established by the IPL. He said that Super Kings would be ready to play the first tournament on September 19, if necessary.
Harbhajan will join in the first week of September
Harbhajan Singh, who missed the preparatory camp in Chennai last month for personal reasons, is expected to arrive in Dubai in the “first week of September,” Viswanathan said. He was scheduled to join the Super Kings camp on Tuesday, but is believed to still be with his family in India.
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