*Official* IPL 2021

[Manee]

Feels like it is time to call it off. For the safety of all concerned. A breached bubble with games continuing sounds far more dangerous than no bubble at all.

 

[Shri]

ffs if this had happened yesterday we would still be on top in the points table

 

[Spark]

That would be the easiest but will Australia allow others to fly in?

Yeah I'd imagine that to be logistically near impossible to pull off in such short notice and with such uncertainty over borders and the like.

 

[StephenZA]

UAE is already the backup. Also has a very high vaccination rate and continues at speed. Likely best alternative. Whether the BCCI and ICC do this is another issue.

 

[Spark]

Yeah, also geographically concentrated and, well, a lot less by way of jurisdictional hassles to worry about.

 

[honestbharani]

No real surprise, matter of time, it is almost impossible to contain a bubble when the host country is having such a large uncontrolled out-break.

Well, the CSK ones seem to be false positives. That happened with the England players in RSA too.

And they seem to have a handle on where the 2 KKR players may have contacted the virus and reading about it, it seems it happened through surface contact than person to person, given the "green channel" protocol.

Right now, I feel it is upto how the players and the franchises feel. If they still feel safe, and with even more controlled environments, esp. around hospital visits, it could go on. But if they are not ok with it, it has to be called off or postponed.

 

[honestbharani]

I think the issue is how overloaded the hospitals are right now, in these cities, so even if everyone wears PPEs there is a risk of someone contacting it if you have to take a player to a hospital.

There are a few of the big hospitals in Chennai who do not take covid patients at all, and if such hospitals are around in others, they can be used. Otherwise, they have to leave the bubble and quarantine again every time they take a scan.

Unless they arrange for it to be taken from the hotel or something, I guess.

 

[Spark]

Didn't the franchises want to have more of a "hub" model where everyone is located in one or two cities in secured bio-bubbles but were overruled by the BCCI?

I do wonder if international boards will start getting frisky about the NOCs at some point. Not, once again, that there would be any point as far as Australia is concerned...

But yeah I've felt a ways about this tournament being held for a while now but figured, well, I guess people need the distraction so didn't comment. This turn of events rather dilutes the strength of that justification.

 

[honestbharani]

Didn't the franchises want to have more of a "hub" model where everyone is located in one or two cities in secured bio-bubbles but were overruled by the BCCI?

I do wonder if international boards will start getting frisky about the NOCs at some point. Not, once again, that there would be any point as far as Australia is concerned...

But yeah I've felt a ways about this tournament being held for a while now but figured, well, I guess people need the distraction so didn't comment. This turn of events rather dilutes the strength of that justification.

I dont think it dilutes that at all. The distraction definitely helps enough percentage of the people, based on polls and stuff, but it cant obviously be at the cost of the people involved. And yeah, the hub model should have worked but BCCI perhaps thought they could fly them out coz they did that in the England tour and it worked. They went with the same template. I think it might change now and we may play out rest of the tourney, if it does go ahead, in the current venues. Delhi also reduced their active cases count today and there is a good chance that both Ahmedabad and Delhi are past the peak of the second wave as well, so they may well just play here and finish the tournament.

 

[slippy888]

What happens to Australian players if they want to return to Australia now

 

[honestbharani]

Think they cant for a while at least anyways.

BTW, kudos to Paul Reiffel who volunteered to stay back and do more games as Nitin Menon had to return home due to covid emergency in his immediate family. Good guy, that one.

 

[slippy888]

Micheal Slater got a private jet to the maldives and he just a commentator, i think australians want out now.

 

[slippy888]

Pat Cummins just tested positive for coran virus, where do we go from here guys.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

I think a halt of any more games.

 

[JOJOXI]

Pat Cummins just tested positive for coran virus, where do we go from here guys.

Any link, I've not seen that news just that he isolating? But yeah agree with SCC - I'm kind of waiting to hear more as I guess with a game every day they kind of have to move quickly - it isn't a good look if you continue playing then decide in 2/3 days to postpone off the back of this.

 

[slippy888]

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

‘Postive’

 

[Nintendo]

The guy called Cummins a "baseballer" lmao you have to be taking the piss.

 

[social]

Cummins hasn’t tested positive

 

[Burgey]

OMG what even is this last page