3rd Test at the SCG, Sydney, 7 Jan - 11 Jan 2021

[sunilz]

I feel Indian side started to make noise about Brisbane test so that CA gets easy on them for Melbourne quarantine violation.
Nice diversion strategy ?

 

[Victor Ian]

Easy! If India want to be treated like Australians then they can't play for India. Who does Australia drop for Bumrah?

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Who would be the worst player to quarantine with for a couple of months? Warne probably.

 

[Gnske]

Who would be the worst player to quarantine with for a couple of months? Warne probably.

Room service would be swimming through a sea of pizza boxes to get to him.

 

[Prince EWS]

Who would be the worst player to quarantine with for a couple of months? Warne probably.

Mark Vermeulen.

 

[Teja.]

Who would be the worst player to quarantine with for a couple of months? Warne probably.

Kohli seems like the sort of guy who'll give a nutrition seminar if he catches someone with a cheeky fanta.

 

[Gnske]

Mark Vermeulen.

Basically you'd be prison bitching not rooming with that guy.

 

[Burgey]

"The Queensland government has agreed to let both teams train and play in Brisbane but also mingle in communal areas of their hotel, which CA has booked out entirely as part of quarantine concessions."

This is in fact consistent with the Qld CHO's statement as well:

"They can have bubbles within that hotel because they're going to be playing with colleagues in the match so they're going to have exposure there," Queensland Chief Health Officer Jeannette Young said on Sunday. "That's absolutely fine but they can't leave the hotel and they can't go out into the general community."

This, according to the SMH, is also the terms of the teams' arrangements in Sydney.

 

[Prince EWS]

Basically you'd be prison bitching not rooming with that guy.

I could probably convince him to go full McVeigh over not being allowed to go to the pub across the road. Silver linings.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

There's surely a few guys who are COVID truthers. Rory Burns I reckon.

 

[Burgey]

Who would be the worst player to quarantine with for a couple of months? Warne probably.

Runako Morton. Not just for the knife play. He'd probably pong a bit these days too.

 

[Teja.]

A lot of this talk about Indian players being ungrateful and spoilt about saying they would prefer not to go to Brisbane due to harder regulations on movement has a lot of 'shut up and dribble the ball' energy tbh.

 

[Gnske]

There's surely a few guys who are COVID truthers. Rory Burns I reckon.

Steve O'Keefe

 

[Prince EWS]

There's surely a few guys who are COVID truthers. Rory Burns I reckon.

Baxter J. Holt.

Most of my mutual friends with him are related to Ross Cameron.

 

[Daemon]

1. The bulk of these complaints seems to be coming from the playing group and the touring management rather than the BCCI directly. They'd have different goals and incentives. The board primarily wants to make money; Rahane and Shastri primarily want to win the series.

2. Even ignoring that, the BBCI doesn't always just get everything its way with these tour negotiations. Brisbane may have been a bit of a sticking point originally that they ceded on but now see an opportunity to renegotiate.

As I said, I don't mean this in a critical way at all. I think it's brilliant.

I mean, honestly, this is pretty far fetched thinking PEWS.

It's far more likely that some of the players just want to **** about, walk around Brisbane and take those terrible selfies they seem to love, even if by all reports there's nothing to see there.

Six months of being on the road culminating in a hotel stay with only drunk Shastri for company can't be a fun prospect. One of the guys has lost his father ffs.

In any case I'm very curious who this source is and whether he represents the group's/board's views or just the views of a vocal minority.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Is that Marcuss?

 

[Prince EWS]

I mean, honestly, this is pretty far fetched thinking PEWS.

It's far more likely that some of the players just want to **** about, walk around Brisbane and take those terrible selfies they seem to love, even if by all reports there's nothing to see there.

Six months of being on the road culminating in a hotel stay with only drunk Shastri for company can't be a fun prospect. One of the guys has lost his father ffs.

In any case I'm very curious who this source is and whether he represents the group's/board's views or just the views of a vocal minority.

I think it's awesome and I refuse to let you take it away from me.

 

[Gnske]

Six months of being on the road culminating in a hotel stay with only drunk Shastri for company can't be a fun prospect.

Both of them or just one?

 

[honestbharani]

Yeah, they really will. You've just read multiple cases saying as much, including one quoting CA on that very point, but you're still not getting it, or more likely just choosing to ignore it.

So they do have access to the amenities at the hotel, unless they choose to stay in their rooms. In which case, well, what's the ****ing drama?

Mate, I am yet to see an official source actually quote that there will be no restrictions within the hotel and it stands to reason coz the primary issue raised by the team seems to be around being confined to a hotel room quarantine. If that is not the case, then the team should suck it up and play coz the conditions will be the same for both teams and they are getting as much independence as is possible in the scenario. But I don't think it is a done deal yet and hence, all these issues coming up.

If it is confirmed, I actually think the team would go ahead with the itinerary as scheduled. Or at least, I think they should and hope they would. But I dont think we are there yet.

 

[cnerd123]

Not hard to find an official source if you google the quotes themselves.