Before the 13th season of IPL, CSK's team suffered another major setback. The team's star cricket Suresh Raina has returned to India due to personal reasons and is not going to play in the 13th season of IPL. Suresh Raina went to Dubai with the rest of the team on 21 August. CSK's official Twitter handle tweeted the statement of CSK CEO KS Vishwanathan, which wrote, 'Suresh Raina has returned to India due to personal reasons. He will not be available for the rest of the IPL season. Raina and his family are going to get full support from CSK.' Earlier, the quarantine period of the team was extended as a bowler from the CSK team and some members of the support staff were found positive in the coronavirus test. The CSK team will now be quarantined till 1 September, while almost all the other franchise teams have started with their practice sessions.
Suresh Raina returns to India from UAE 'for personal reasons' and will be unavailable for the remainder of the IPL season, says his team Chennai Super Kings Players of the team had left for UAE earlier this month for the tournament to be held from September 19 to November 10. pic.twitter.com/AVNQfKzANn
— ANI (@ANI) August 29, 2020
The franchise team has not yet released any official statement, but an IPL source said that the figure for positive cases is between 10 and 12. A source associated with the league has said that the results of all the positive tests of coronavirus came on the first, third and 6th days of the team's arrival here. A senior IPL source said on the condition of confidentiality: "Yes, apart from a right-arm medium pacer playing for India recently, some franchise members of the franchise have been found infected in the Coronavirus investigation. This figure can be up to 12 patients." He said, "As far as we have come to know, apart from senior officials associated with CSK management and his wife, at least two members of the franchise's social media team are also vulnerable to Covid-19."
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After this accident, the quarantine period of the Mahi-led team has been extended till September 1. After this incident, there is panic in the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), but it is understood that the league is currently in no trouble, which is going to be held in UAE due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Looking at the IPL's last 2-year schedule, the first match is between the teams playing finals last year, according to which the league's first match this year is going to be between CSK and champions Mumbai Indians. However, it is not yet clear whether CSK is ready for the first match to be held on September 19 or not.
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