Hussey began feeling unwell after the IPL moved from Mumbai to Delhi, the place the bio-bubble of the group may have been breached.
“My initial test came up as a weak positive, and we were sort of hoping the next would be negative and it’d be alright, but unfortunately I got retested the next day and that came back positive,” he stated.
“To be honest, I had already started feeling some of the symptoms and so I was thinking, ‘I’m pretty sure I’ve got it’.
“Plus I was sitting next to the bowling coach on the bus a few times, so I thought, ‘If he’s got it then there’s a pretty good chance I’ve got it as well’.”
Hussey remains to be uncertain the place he acquired the virus from although. But he thinks it may very well be on the airport the place all of the workers wasn’t a part of the bubble. “So there was a risk there,” Hussey stated, including: “It (also) could have been at the ground; there was ground staff while we were there training and on game day.
“There was certainly more risk once we left that Mumbai bubble.”
After testing optimistic, Hussey stated, “I wasn’t surprised.
“I was a bit like, ‘Oh gosh, why me’, but I didn’t really think too much at all. I thought it was a bit of a shame.”
Hussey did expertise some signs and stated was very drained. “But I certainly wasn’t worried about my breathing or things like that,” he added. “It was just a bit annoying, really.
“Looking back on it now, it probably did knock me around a bit more than I thought at the time. At the time I thought I didn’t feel great, but not life-threatening or anything like that. But it does take its toll on you after a while I guess.”
After testing adverse, the preliminary plan for Hussey was to ship him to Maldives, however the latter banned flights from India finally. The different plan was to board flight to Doha from Chennai, after which to Australia.
“That’s what we ended up going with in the end,” stated Hussey.
“We were a bit nervous obviously with flights being cancelled left, right and centre, but thankfully it all went quite smoothly and it’s good to be back.
“Even once we arrived in Sydney, the police and the staff at the airport were all really friendly and made you feel as comfortable as they could because it’s obviously not the nicest experience.”
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He continued, “It’s disappointing because the tournament was going really well and we felt secure in that first bubble.”
“So it’s really a shame that coronavirus was able to penetrate the bubble because there was some fantastic cricket being played and the tournament was really set up well for the second half, but unfortunately we couldn’t finish it off.”
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