IPL 2021: CSK coach Hussey didn’t fear for his life, dreadful experience after being Covid positive
IPL 2021: CSK coach Hussey didn’t fear for his life, dreadful experience after being Covid positive
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Former Australia batsman and Chennai Super Kings assistant coach Mike Hussey gave the shock he experienced after contracting COVID-19 during the first leg of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 in India. The CSK batting coach along with bowling coach Lakshmipathy Balaji tested positive in May this year, just before the IPL 2021 was postponed due to rising COVID-19 cases in India. “The Chennai Super Kings medical staff were pretty darn good,” Hussey was quoted that time. “They were a little bit concerned if my condition went south, and I started to deteriorate, that they couldn’t get me the medical support that I needed. There were so many cases in Delhi, and we were getting reports there were 100 hospital beds available with oxygen for the whole of Delhi. "And 10,000 people in Delhi lined up around the streets trying to get into these hospitals to get the medical support they needed,” the former Australia southpaw added.

The franchise made the call to relocate Hussey and the bowling coach to Chennai from the Mumbai bio-bubble, where they felt he would have greater access to care. The 46-year-old shared that he was woken up at six in the morning and asked to pull on a full set of personal protective equipment to complete the transfer. Hussey may have been spared the severity of his illness, had Australia’s vaccine rollout progressed at a swifter pace. “I was trying to get vaccinated before I left for the IPL but I wasn’t eligible with my age, so I couldn’t,” Hussey said. “And then we were trying to get vaccinated over there but in India, things sometimes don’t get organised as well as we would have liked. We couldn’t get it done.”

Hussey didn’t fear for his life, notwithstanding the devastation unfolding around him along with the chance he wouldn’t have access to greater care if his health worsened. “I had a pretty bad fever for the first three or four days, I had a barking cough, I felt like I had a really bad head cold, and just… fatigue," he recalled. “I’d be in my room and say, ‘I’ll go and lie down for a couple of minutes’, and wake up two and a half hours later. It was scarier for my family back home. They were more worried about me than I was. My main focus was getting better, I knew I had to rest and ride it out. I felt like ‘I’ll be alright,’ seeing people doing it a lot tougher than I felt like I was,” the CSK coach said.

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