Suresh Raina has said that she did not want to “take a chance” in the UAE as the situation at Chennai Super Kings camp “did not look good” after 13 staff members tested positive for Covid-19 last week. With three weeks to go until the IPL began, Raina said she thought about her family back home and decided to return to India.
“When the biobubble is not safe, how do you risk it? I have a family with two young children and elderly parents,” Raina said. panorama. “For me returning to the family was more important.
“It was a difficult decision. CSK is also like my family, but when my children’s faces appeared in Dubai and the Covid situation did not look good, I decided to go back.”
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Although the team’s CEO, Kasi Viswanathan, said via a Super Kings tweet that Raina would “not be available for the remainder of the IPL season” for “personal reasons,” Raina did not rule out the possibility of her returning to Dubai if the “situation” improved.
“I am a CSK player forever. If the situation improves in Dubai, I may even come back. The door is not closed for me,” he said.
Meanwhile, Super Kings owner N Srinivasan told PTI that whether or not Raina returns will be up to the team’s leadership, namely Viswanathan, captain MS Dhoni and coach Stephen Fleming, and not Srinivasan himself. . “Look, please understand that that is not my domain at all,” the PTI quoted. “We own a team, we own the franchise but we don’t have players. The team is ours, but the players don’t. I don’t own the players.”
Srinivasan had previously expressed dissatisfaction with Raina’s departure, saying the hitter “would certainly realize what he is missing,” including the money that comes with an IPL contract.
“He [Srinivasan] he may have been angry, “said Raina panorama from Srinivasan’s comments. “Mr. Srinivasan is like a father figure to me and he has always supported me and is close to my heart, he treats me like his youngest son.”
The Super Kings have not named a replacement for Raina and are preparing for their first training session since arriving in Dubai on August 21. They were forced into prolonged quarantine after 11 members of their team and two players tested positive for Covid-19. While those 13 were moved to a separate hotel and must undergo two weeks of quarantine, the remaining contingent underwent another test on Monday and came back negative for Covid-19. They are scheduled for another Covid-19 test on September 3; If they clarify that, they can start training from September 4.
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