IPL 13 will be held across three venues - Sharjah, Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Chennai Super Kings (CSK) all-rounder Shane Watson hopes for a “seamless” tournament despite plenty of problems compounded at the CSK camp even before the start of the 13th edition Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 on 19th September in the UAE.
Ahead of the IPL 2020, 13 CSK members including 2 players tested positive for COVID-19 and their star batsman Suresh Raina left the camp due to “personal reasons”. The CSK team will now remain under quarantine for the next few days before entering the bio-secure bubble.
In a recent video shared on his Instagram page, Watson shared his thoughts on the recent problems CSK is facing, while insisting that he himself and the rest of the franchise staff and players will do whatever they can to ensure that IPL 2020 goes ahead amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Watson said, “It’s been an interesting time to be in lockdown again for another seven days, but this is the ever-changing world that we live in. We all have to do what we possibly can to stay safe, to limit the spread of Covid-19 throughout the IPL tournament because it is the best T20 tournament in the world.”
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The Aussie batsman further added, “All players, all fans, want it to go ahead. I’ll do whatever we have to do to make sure that IPL goes ahead.”
Meanwhile, Watson was also hopeful of no more COVID-19 cases for the rest of IPL 2020 so that the tournament takes place without any further obstacles in the UAE.
He signed off by saying, “It is a situation that has made everyone realize how integral and important it is for everyone to BCCI’s and IPL Governing Council’s bio-security protocols because something like this can create a hiccup to start things off. Fingers crossed nothing like this happens for the rest of the tournament and the tournament goes as seamlessly as possible. And it’s another exciting season of IPL and cricket.”
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