Dubai: The Indian group will stay in “managed isolation” before the World Test Championship last towards New Zealand, the ICC introduced on Saturday however didn’t point out the precise interval of arduous quarantine upon reaching UK.
World’s prime two Test groups will battle it out on the Hampshire Bowl in Southampton from June 18-22.
While New Zealand are already in England for a bilateral sequence towards the hosts, the Virat Kohli-led Indian group will arrive in the UK on June 3 after competing a 14-day quarantine interval in India
“The event has now been granted an exemption by the UK government as outlined in The Health Protection (Coronavirus, International Travel and Operator Liability) (England) Regulations 2021, released on 17 May 2021,” the ICC stated in a launch.
“….Upon landing, they will proceed directly to the on-site hotel at the Hampshire Bowl where they will be tested again before commencing a period of managed isolation,” it added.
However the ICC launch does not specify the period of arduous (room) quarantine in Southampton. For New Zealand group, ECB made it a three-day obligatory room quarantine before permitting the gamers to prepare.
Regular assessments will probably be performed in the course of the interval of isolation.
The Indian group will enter UK after finishing 14-days in a bio-bubble in Mumbai with six RT-PCR damaging assessments. Some of the gamers like R Ashwin, Mayank Agarwal, Washington Sundar are actually allowed to use the lodge gymnasium from May 25 after a week-long room quarantine and three damaging assessments.
However just a few like skipper Virat Kohli, his white ball deputy Rohit Sharma, all of whom joined late may have an entire room quarantine before boarding the UK flight. They have been supplied with gymnasium equipments inside their rooms.
In the UK, gamers’ exercise will probably be allowed in a regularly growing method after every spherical of damaging testing, shifting from train in isolation to small group after which bigger squad exercise, while at all times remaining throughout the bio-secure venue.
The New Zealand group will transfer from the ECB bio-secure atmosphere into the World Test Championship Final bubble on June 15 and will probably be topic to common testing prior to and put up arrival in Southampton.
