The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic has opened various areas of concerns for the players and administrators, and one prominent worry among all has been the mental state of players.
There have been players who have opted out of tournaments citing extended time period stuck in biosecure bubbles—mode cricket boards have adopted to conduct tournaments free of Covid-19 fears.
Now, one of the latest entrant of Royal Challengers Bangalore—Glenn Maxwell has highlighted the challenges of being locked under biosecure bubbles. He has rated movement from one bubble to another as a ‘never-ending nightmare’ that has never ended since the time pandemic began.
“It’s very difficult. you being sheltered from people outside your bio-secure bubble and you get stuck into this never-ending nightmare where you are living the same day over and over again,” Maxwell said in a video released by RCB on their Youtube channel.
Maxwell outlined the change in behaviour people undergo as they almost forget communication with people and players have to deal with such ‘massive challenge’ day in and day out.
“You almost tend to forget how to have a normal conversation with the outside world. That can be very hard mentally and is a massive challenge. But it’s great to be back playing and to be able to do our jobs and entertain people. But it’s still a difficult lifestyle at the moment,” he added.
Maxwell was bought by the RCB for a whopping Rs 14.25 crore in the auction earlier this year after the Kings XI Punjab had released him for his poor performances.