Cricket legend in limbo after COVID result

Australian cricket legend Ian Chappell has examined adverse to COVID-19 and is now “ready for some bastard” to inform him what to do subsequent.

When the former Test captain was made to leave Adelaide Oval during the opening match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy series – he lives on the Northern Seashores of Sydney – it made for outstanding information.

Chappell had been booted from a venue at which a grandstand is called after him.

The 75-Take a look at nice was final evening instructed he had examined adverse however says his subsequent strikes are unsure.

“Nicely, I am ready for some bastard to inform me. However I am hopefully on the airplane tomorrow (again to Sydney),” Chappell instructed Extensive World of Sports activities.

“I’ve acquired no probability of being there on the Boxing Day Take a look at (on commentary obligation). I might say we will should do it with a Melbourne-only crew.”

Chappell is amongst a number of figures in Australian cricket whose skilled lives have been rattled by the outbreak on the Northern Seashores.

Former Australian paceman Brett Lee is a Northern Beaches resident and last Friday rushed home from Adelaide Oval, the place he had been commentating, to keep away from lacking out on Christmas together with his household.

Shortly after, Sydney-based Test squad members David Warner and Sean Abbott were flown to Melbourne early, so they might quarantine forward of the arrival of the remainder of the squad for the Boxing Day Take a look at.

The outbreak additionally wreaked havoc for a number of Northern Seashores residents employed by broadcasters Fox and Seven, in addition to Cricket Australia workers.

Cricket Australia is set to maintain the New Yr Take a look at at its conventional venue – the SCG – but the surge of the virus in Sydney could force the governing body to relocate the third Test.

“It has been a weird yr,” Chappell mentioned.

“You’ve got simply acquired to get on with life – that is how I’ve at all times been. No matter you have to do, you have to do it.”

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