SYDNEY: Cricket authorities in Australia and New Zealand rushed to evacuate star players from Covid-hit India on Wednesday , after the lucrative Indian Premier League was abandoned.
The group is likely to be chartered back to Australia once the ban has been lifted, with the help of the Board of Control for Cricket in India . "His symptoms are relatively mild," said Todd Greenberg, the Australian Cricketers' Association chief executive. New Zealand Cricket said it was trying to organise a charter for Test players Kane Williamson, Trent Boult, Kyle Jamieson and Mitchell Santner, as well as three players signed to English county sides.
India, which has reported more than 20 million infections so far, with more than 220,000 deaths, is due to host the Twenty20 World Cup from October.
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