Chennai Super Kings (CSK) batsman Murali Vijay recently had a chat with his IPL franchise social media team in lockdown. He had expressed his desire to take Australia women's all-rounder Ellyse Perry on a dinner. 

“Ellyse Perry. I want to have dinner with her. She is so beautiful. And Shikhar Dhawan any day. He is a fun guy. Just that he will speak Hindi and I will be conversing in Tamil,” Vijay said.

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The Aussie cricketer has reacted to Vijay's comment. She was in a chat with sports producer Rupha Ramani. Women's no.1 all-rounder responded, “I hope he’s paying. That’s very kind of him. I’m flattered."

With no cricket going on, Cricket Australia is under financial crisis and they had to take strict steps which meant laying off the majority of their staff.

Perry believes they will find out a way to generate revenue. "Sport, in general, is resilient and I can't actually see it having a long-lasting negative effect," Perry had told the Australian Associated Press.

"It's certainly made organizations rethink how they run their sports and their codes and potentially strip it back to what is really important.

"That's not necessarily a bad thing. I don't think it's going to affect women's sport. It's become so apparent that if you want all your population engaging in your code you need to engage all the population. And part of that is having women's involvement," she added.