{"id":1447,"date":"2020-11-18T15:15:13","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=73105"},"modified":"2020-11-18T15:15:13","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T09:45:13","slug":"indias-tour-of-australia-adelaide-test-doubtful-despite-ca-assurance-mcg-on-standby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/indias-tour-of-australia-adelaide-test-doubtful-despite-ca-assurance-mcg-on-standby\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s Tour of Australia: Adelaide Test doubtful, despite CA assurance, MCG on standby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">After a drought of international cricket due to the pandemic, the wait is about to end for the Indian cricket fans. However, the recent COVID-19 outbreak in Adelaide has put a cloud of uncertainty over the first Test match. The visitors will play the first Test match on December 17. Although, Cricket Australia (CA) has assured the match will be played at Adelaide. However, there are reports by the Australian media that South Australian Premier Steven Marshall, could not guarantee that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Marshall is still optimistic about cricket in South Australia and said \u201c<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">We are still hopeful that the cricket will go ahead. What we are doing in South Australia is putting all those people we think pose the biggest risk, those people that have come into contact with someone who is infectious, we have put them into quarantine as quickly as possible,\u201d<\/span><\/strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">There are also reports about the Adelaide Test being shifted to Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).In case, the venue needs to be shifted, MCG can host the match claims the MCG chief Stuart Fox. Among other reports, the other alternate option to host the match can be the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">In the meantime, CA has swiftly shifted players and staff from different parts of Australia to Sydney. After a spike in COVID-19 cases in South Australia, other states including Western Australia, Tasmania and Queensland have closed their borders with SA. The move came to avoid any disruption in upcoming India\u2019s tour of Australia.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Nick Hockley, Cricket Australia\u2019s Interim CEO, feels that CA is taken sufficient precautionary step, to ensure smooth conduct of the upcoming series. Talking about CA active and well-planned moves he said\u00a0<\/span><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cCA has taken a pro-active approach and mobilized a number of people across the country over the past 24 hours to shore up our men\u2019s domestic and international schedules,\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cI would like to thank the players and staff for their understanding regarding the changes to their travel schedules and for their commitment to ensuring the summer of cricket is a huge success.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Hockley further thanked all the leaders who have helped to make such difficult decisions, in such a short span of time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CA have also confirmed that none of the domestic players in Adelaide, during the Sheffield Shield last week, visited the \u201chot spots\u201d identified by SA Health department. All players have undergone COVID-19 test, with all results received so far being negative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">CA have repeated that they are currently devoted to the hosting of the pink-ball Test against India at the Adelaide Oval from December 17. While keeping an eye on the latest developments.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a drought of international cricket due to the pandemic, the wait is about to end for the Indian cricket\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":24558,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[995],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-cricket-australia"],"reading_time":"3 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}