The 20 match officials underwent the compulsory Covid-19 tests according to the requirements of the local governments
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Last Updated at September 17, 2020 21: 15 IST
All 12 Indian and 3 foreign umpires, besides 5 Indian match referees, have tested negative ahead of the Indian Premier League ( IPL) even as they complied with the strict quarantine procedure– throughout which they had actually limited choices for seeing Hindi movies in their hotel rooms in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Their quarantine period will end on a positive note, and they are all set to officiate in the much-awaited IPL 2020 starting on September 19.
Each authorities was checked on the first, 3rd, and the 5th days of their six-day quarantine period, and they all have actually returned negative results, a Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) source informed IANS.
The 20 match officials went through the necessary Covid-19 tests as per the requirements of the city governments of the three emirates– Abu Dhabi, Dubai, and Sharjah– where 56 league matches will be played till November 3, besides the four play-off matches, consisting of the final on November 10.
The match officials were earlier tested on landing at the Dubai airport, and after that the 3 tests followed at their respective hotels.
One group of these officials is lodged in Abu Dhabi and the other in Dubai. The Abu Dhabi team will officiate in 20 league matches to be played at Shiekh Zayed Arena while the other team is a larger one and these authorities will officiate in 24 league video games in Dubai and 12 in Sharjah.
” Given that the Covid-19 protocols in Abu Dhabi are the strictest of the 3 emirates, a set of umpires and referees will be completely based there. And due to the fact that there are no travel constraints in between Dubai and Sharjah, the officials stationed in Dubai will do games at both locations; it will be a mix-and-match policy,” the source informed IANS.
The 12 Indian umpires are: Anil Chaudhary, C. Shamshuddin, Virender Sharma, K.N. Ananthapadmanabhan, Nitin Menon, S. Ravi, Vineet Kulkarni, Yashwant Barde, Ulhas Gandhe, Anil Dandekar, K Srinivasan, and Pashchim Pathak.
The non-Indian umpires are Richard Illingworth of England, former Australian speedster Paul Reiffel, and Christopher Gaffaney of New Zealand.
And all five match referees are Indians: Javagal Srinath, Manu Nayar, V Narayan Kutty, Shakti Singh, and Prakash Bhatt.
When the match authorities would come out of the quarantine in a day or 2 and enter the bio-bubble for the IPL matches, they would be needed to use in the necks a gadget that would track their movements to keep them secure.
In quarantine, the authorities had food being provided, quite literally, at the doorstep of their hotels rooms.
The breakfast was served in packed boxes while lunch and dinner had some more choices. They would order food on a devoted WhatsApp variety of the hotels.
” A menu list for lunch and supper is offered with the jam-packed breakfast, which had Indian and continental options, including sambhar and vada and so on. The match officials would pick the dishes from that list and order on a hotel WhatsApp number mentioned in the menu. That could alter from Thursday when perhaps a buffet system would be offered at the end of the quarantine duration,” the source informed.
He said all officials were satisfied with the hotel centers, though most likely not with the TV channel choices.
Some of the officials are not too enthusiastic seeing camel races, though,” he said with chuckle.
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