Chappell

Ian Chappell getting kicked out of the Adelaide Oval?

Pigs may fly.

Besides sure, in these weird and troubling instances, that did really occur tonight.

The Australian cricket legend – who has a grandstand on the floor named after him – was fulfilling his commentary duties for the ABC on day two of the primary Take a look at towards India.

However as a Sydney Northern Seashores resident, the South Australian authorities got here knocking as the COVID-19 cluster toll continued to mount.

And in dramatic scenes Chappell, 77, was requested to go away his beloved floor and isolate earlier than enterprise a COVID take a look at tomorrow.

He is unsure whether or not he’ll then keep in Adelaide or return to Sydney.

“I do not know an excessive amount of, the issue is the (Sydney residential) postcode,” Chappell instructed Extensive World of Sports activities.

“I have not been to any of the locations (with identified COVID contacts) however as soon as they ask in regards to the Northern Seashores native authorities space, I needed to say ‘sure’ to that.

“That triggered issues off.

“I have not acquired a clue but.

“I will simply have the take a look at and see what occurs within the morning.”

Ian Chappell, kicked out of the Adelaide Oval…

“It is bizarre, however that is life in the meanwhile,” he mentioned.

Earlier within the day, former Australian paceman Brett Lee suffered the identical feat.

Lee is a resident of the Northern Seashores and one in every of quite a lot of workers members from each broadcasters Fox Sports activities and Channel 7 who’ve been despatched residence after the cluster.

According to the Daily Telegraph, Lee has no signs of the virus and has not been to any of the notified sizzling spots.

Cricket Australia despatched an pressing memo for any media protecting the primary Take a look at who had visited the Northern Seashores previously three weeks to contact them as quickly as doable.

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However Cricket Australia’s strict bio-security protocols saved Mitchell Starc from sensationally being withdrawn from the primary Take a look at.

Starc and spouse Alyssa Healy reside within the Northern Seashores however have been allowed to stay in Adelaide regardless of arriving after December 11.

Starc and Healy have been granted an exemption from the South Australian Governemnt because of CA’s stringent protocols which requested the pair to self-isolate for 3 days earlier than re-joining Australia’s Take a look at bubble after Starc took leave due to a family illness.

“That is the very motive why all through the summer season we have had the gamers in bubbles and in hubs, and we have had a vastly profitable summer season already,” Interim Cricket Australia CEO Nick Hockley instructed SEN this week.