FORMER INDIA PLAYER CHETAN IS COVID-19 +VE Dada doesn’t want longer quarantine during Oz tour PAINE TALKS OF PAINFUL PAST AFTER INJURY

New Delhi, July 12: Former India cricketer and Uttar Pradesh cabinet minister Chetan Chauhan has tested positive for Covid-19.

The development of Chauhan testing positive for the dreaded virus emerged late on Saturday night from the tweets of former India players Aakash Chopra and R. P. Singh, who wished him a speedy recovery.

Chauhan underwent the Covid-19 test on Friday and has been reportedly admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi PGI hospital in Lucknow. His family members will undergo virus tests and they have been put under home quarantine for now. —PTI

New Delhi, July 12: BCCI President Sourav Ganguly wants a shorter than mandated quarantine period for the Indian team when it travels to Australia for a Test series this year as “we don’t want the players to go that far and sit in hotel rooms for two weeks”.

The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the rules of the game, which restarted with the ongoing Test series between England and the West Indies. Players have to be in quarantine for two weeks and be tested for the virus before they can take the field in empty stadiums for now.

But Ganguly is hoping that the Indian team will get some relaxation during its tour of Australia, comprising four Tests, including a day-nighter, later in the year.

“...we have confirmed that tour. In December we will be coming. We just hope the number of quarantine days get reduced a bit,” Ganguly told India Today show ‘The Inspiration’.

“Because we don’t want the players to go all that far and sit in hotel rooms for two weeks. It is very, very depressing and disappointing. We are looking at that, the quarantine thing,” he said.

Ganguly also said the Australia series be career-defining skipper Virat Kohli.

“My presidentship tenure, I don’t know whether I will survive by this December or not. But his captaincy tenure is going to be a yardstick. This will be a milestone series,” he added. — PTI that will for

Melbourne, July 12: Australia Test captain Tim Paine has revealed that a career-threatening injury in 2010 tormented him so much that he “hated” cricket and spent his days “crying on crouch” before a sports psychologist helped him come out of the “painful” episode. Paine suffered an injury in a charity match in 2010. The injury required Paine to undergo seven surgeries, involving eight pins, a metal plate and a piece of hip bone and took away two cricket seasons from him. “I didn’t sleep, I didn’t eat. I was so nervous before games, I’d have no energy. I was horrible to live with,” Paine said. — PTI

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