The ongoing friction among Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and super mega-celebrity player Shakib Al Hasan will maintain Kolkata Knight Riders sweating over the latter’s availability for the approaching IPL. A day after the all-rounder stated that the board had misinterpreted his intentions for selecting IPL over the country’s Test series in Sri Lanka, BCB, in an impromptu assembly at its president Nazmul Hassan’s house on Sunday evening, decided to rethink the No Objection Certificate (NOC) issued to Shakib for IPL.
BCB cricket operation chairman Akram Khan stated as Bangladesh will tour Sri Lanka for the Tests, it became implied that Shakib desired IPL.
“But now that he desires to play Tests, from what he has said, we can talk his NOC withinside the next couple of days. If he’s interested, he’ll play the Tests in Sri Lanka,” Akram became quoted as announcing in Bangladesh media.
In this sort of scenario, Shakib will miss the IPL among April 21 and May three while the -match Test series, a part of the ICC World Test Championship, is scheduled. It became additionally learnt that the BCB officials have taken exception to Shakib’s phrases and are thinking about slapping a great or a ban on him.
The Bangladesh all-rounder, who became picked via KKR for Rs 3.2 crore withinside the auction’s ultimate month, had already ignored 2020 as he became suspended.
Knights set up base in Mumbai:
With no domestic matches this time, KKR will now no longer make Eden Gardens their base. Instead, the Knights will put together for the event in Mumbai, and the primary set of players, such as former skipper Dinesh Karthik, Varun Chakravarthy, Rahul Tripathi, Kamlesh Nagarkoti, Sandeep Warrier, Vaibhav Arora, at the side of an assistant teach Abhishek Nayar, and assistant bowling teach Omkar Salvi, have already checked into the team hotel there.
KKR’s massive foreign players Sunil Narine and Andre Russell have also begun their journey from the West Indies and could be a part of the others soon.
According to BCCI’s guidelines, all players, help staff and management want to go through a seven-day quarantine of their hotel rooms. There could be in-room testing done on Days 5 and 7, and most effective if all three outcomes are negative, can the person enter the bio-bubble.
However, the board has said that no participant could be vaccinated all through the event. Anyone checking out fine will want to isolate for at least ten days and clean the testing method earlier than reintegrating into the bio-secure environment, with a purpose to be monitored via way of means of ‘bubble integrity managers’.
However, players who’re a part of the India-England ODI series could be allowed bubble-to-bubble switch without serving a quarantine. KKR skipper Eoin Morgan, Shubman Gill, Kuldeep Yadav, and Prasidh Krishna will be part of the squad straightaway after the ODI series.
