Dale Steyn reveals the player with whom he would love to be in quarantine

South Africa players returned home after ODI series against India was cancelled.

The whole world is in a shutdown mode due to the coronavirus pandemic spreading across the globe. The COVID-19 virus has affected more than 220,000 people in the world, taking more than 9,000 lives so far.

South African cricketers were in India recently to play a 3-match ODI series, but with rain spoiling the first match in Dharamshala and the spread of coronavirus hastened the postponement of the tour, with the Proteas team was asked to self-isolate on their return home.

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Dale Steyn is one such player under quarantine and revealed the player he would like to be with in such circumstances. "I would love to be in quarantine with someone like Quinny de Kock. He is one of my favorite people in the world. If you walk into his hotel room, he's either making flies for fishing or he is watching a fishing video or he is watching a cooking video. And when you are at his house, he's doing the same stuff," ESPNCricinfo quoted Dale Steyn as saying.

"I hate cooking, so it would be great if he was. Because then I could watch all the fishing videos that he's watching, I could help him do all the tying, and he could cook all the food. He's a proper cook," he added.

However, when asked for an option, Steyn, the leading wicket-taker for Proteas in Tests, named Andile Phehlukwayo. "As for who I wouldn't enjoy being around right now... no one in particular. But I guess just from a music point of view, maybe somebody like Andy Phehlukwayo. If I had to listen to the music that he listens to all day long, I might just go and say, I am coronavirus positive, lock me in some other quarantine," Steyn said.

Cricket South Africa has suspended all forms of cricket for 60 days while Cricket Australia has advised all its employees to work from home.

(ANI inputs)