7 IPL franchises to spend a total of 1 crore to bring 22 England-Australia players to Dubai

The English and Australian players have been occupied in the short format series and will join their IPL squads directly after that.

The Indian Premier League is the world’s most-watched cricketing league and none of the franchise wants to miss on their top players. According to a report, franchises have together made special arrangements to transport their players who are on national duty to UAE as safely and quickly as possible.

The 7 IPL teams have together hired a charter plane to bring the 22 players from Manchester to Dubai. The cost to hire the charter is a whopping 1 crore. All the franchises have their players engaged at the England-Australia series in the UK except for Mumbai Indians.

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According to the reports, players will board a sanitised bus from the stadium to the airport which will be driven by a driver who is part of the ECB’s bio-bubble. The players will not be stopped by long immigration processes and arrangements will be made for the quick and contactless immigration process. The aircraft will be sanitised with its crew and the aircraft will land in a separate airport and not the regular Dubai International Airport. Post that the teams will make arrangements to pick up their players.

The main idea behind the process is so that the players can avoid the 6 day quarantine period after they land as they will be transported from one bio-bubble to another.

“It has all been taken care of. The idea is that they are not outside of the bubble. If we had flown them by commercial flights, they would have had to undergo quarantine. And cost-wise also it would have been dearer as each player will have to be flown by business class. Close to Rs 1 crore for 22 players is not much I suppose,” a franchise official quoted.