Apart from sports, a lot of things are happening in
the cricket world. We are saying this because Cricket Australia's Bio Bubble
rule of five players of Team India was broken, which resulted in Cricket
Australia asking all these players to remain in separate isolation from the
team itself. After this, the Board of Control for Cricket in India
had asked to investigate the matter. But now the names of those cricketers have
been added to this line, which no one had expected. Here we are talking about
Indian captain Virat Kohli and cricketer Hardik Pandya, who have reported that
both of them had also violated bio security protocols before returning to
India.
What is this Eco or Bio-bubble?
Explain in a very simple language, this is an
environment in which the people living in the outside world have no contact,
the people kept in it are completely cut off from the outside world. All the
players participating in the Indian Premier League 2020, coaching and support
staff, match official, hotel staff are subjected to a corona test, after which
everyone is allowed to enter the bio bubble.
Rohit Sharma and four other cricketers dining at a restaurant in Australia
on the New Year’s Day has come under the scrutiny. While they have been placed
in isolation at the moment even as they can train maintaining a social distance
from the other teammates, another incident of Virat Kohli and Hardik
Pandya breaching the bio-secure protocols during the limited-overs leg of
the tour has come forward.
India and Australia played three ODIs and as many T20 Internationals before
the four-match Test series got underway. The limited-overs matches were played
in Sydney and Canberra from However, on December 7, the Indian skipper Virat
Kohli and Hardik Pandya both visited a baby shop in Sydney. Kohli, who is
expecting a baby this month with his wife Anushka Sharma, bought a bagful of
goodies from the store before he and Pandya posed with the staff for several
pictures. November 27 to December 8 with the last match of the series played at
the SCG.
A visit to the store from the two cricketers was in itself a breach of
bio-security rules set by Cricket Australia, as an official confirmed the same
to The Age. Moreover, both Kohli and Pandya should’ve been wearing masks when
they walked inside but they didn’t.