The 14th edition of the Indian Premier League will continue as of now with the defending champions Mumbai Indians locking horns against the Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Arun Jaitley Stadium on Tuesday (4 May). The development comes after two KKR players Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier tested positive for COVID-19.
Meanwhile, three staff members of CSK, Lakshmipathi Balaji, the CEO of the franchise and a team bus driver have also tested positive for the novel coronavirus. However, their result in the rapid antigen test turned negative which makes the situation a little dicier.
In a recent Sports Today podcast, Boria Majumder stressed that there was no bubble breach as far as the Kolkata Knight Riders are concerned and the team will be under hard quarantine for the next five days and if all the tests come out negative then only the match against RCB might be rescheduled on 7 May.
Hard quarantine means none of the KKR players can go outside their rooms and will be served food in disposable cutleries which will be placed outside their respective rooms.
As far as CSK are concerned, the situation can go out of control if the RT-PCR tests of the three aforementioned members come out positive. Balaji was present in the dugout and if his RT-PCR test comes out positive, it means that he might have exposed the virus to the entire CSK squad. However, if the results come out negative, the situation should be under control as told by Boria Majumder in his podcast.
He also added the fact that none of the DDCA groundstaff members who were there yesterday for the match duties in Delhi has tested positive after several media outlets reported that five to seven DDCA groundsmen who were present for match duties yesterday have tested positive.