The perfect exit route for cricketers after IPL suspended

Barring four cricketers and two coaches all the other Indians had left for their respective homes hours after the IPL was indefinitely postponed on Tuesday due tobiosecure bubble breaches Most players had already reached home by WednesdayDelhi Capitalsrsquo Amit Mishra KKRrsquos Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier are quarantined at their hotels in Ahmedabad with a medical team monitoring them while Sunrisers Hyderabadrsquos Wriddhiman Saha CSKrsquos coaches Mike Hussey and L Balaji who also tested positive for Covid19 are in DelhiIt is learnt that the BCCI gave its nod for the other players to disperse following their negative RTPCR testsIPLrsquos overseas players were also on their way back home with as many as eight English cricketers having already landed in their country on Wednesday morning The English players to have touched down at Londonrsquos Heathrow airport are Moeen Ali Sam Curran Chennai Super Kings Tom Curran Chris Woakes Sam Billings Delhi Capitals Jason Roy and Jonny Bairstow Sunrisers Hyderabad and Jos Buttler Rajasthan RoyalsThey will now quarantine in governmentapproved hotels before leaving for their respective homesThree England cricketersmdashDawid Malan Chris Jordan both Punjab Kings and Englandrsquos limitedovers captain Eoin Morgan KKR are expected to leave India by Friday or Saturday The New Zealand cricketers and support staff17 of themmdashwill split into two groups The likes of Kane Williamson SRH Trent Boult MI Kyle Jamieson RCB and others will fly to the United Kingdom most likely with Morgan amp Co for their Test series against England followed by the World Test Championship final against India from June 18 at Southampton Williamson will also be a part of The Hundred to be played from July 21 in the UK Some members of the IPLrsquos coaching staff like CSKrsquos Stephen Fleming KKRrsquos Brendon McCullum RCBrsquos Mike Hesson MIrsquos Shane Bond and others will go back to New Zealand via a chartered flight which has been arranged by a couple of franchisesSA Windies players leaveIt is learnt that players from South Africa 11 West Indies 9 Afghanistan 3 and Bangladesh 2 also left Indian shores on TuesdayThe biggest concern for the BCCI is ensuring the safe return of the Australian contingent the largest with close to 40 members that include cricketers support staff and commentators With Australia closing their border for travellers from India till May 15 following the explosion of Covid19 cases in the last few weeks the BCCI has decided to take the Aussies barring Hussey to Maldives via chartered flightsChartered flight for AussiesA franchisee official told midday ldquoA chartered flight is set to leave from Ahmedabad on Thursday wherein Australian players and support staff members of Punjab Kings Royal Challengers Bangalore and Delhi Capitals all based in Ahmedabad would leave for Maldives They will quarantine there for 14 days before flying out to AustraliardquoA resort has already been booked where only the Australian contingent will be staying It is not clear whether the BCCI the IPL teams or the players will have to bear the extra cost of this detourTalking to reporters in Sydney on Tuesday CArsquos interim chief Nick Hockley said ldquoThe BCCI has been working on a range of options Thatrsquos now narrowed down to theMaldives and Sri Lankardquo29No of games played in IPL14 before the league was suspended