Regional Queensland’s win in chaos

AUSTRALIAN and Indian players will complete 14 days of hard quarantine in Brisbane, and the series between the women’s teams will begin in Mackay, after all seven matches were moved north.

Games scheduled for Sydney and Melbourne – plus the Test match in Perth – will all be played at first in Mackay, then Metricon Stadium on the Gold Coast, as the first moves in the ever-evolving summer schedule jigsaw. Twelve Australian players based in NSW and Victoria, as well as the Indian team, will begin a two-week quarantine period in Brisbane on Monday.

The remainder of the Australian squad will assemble closer to the start of the series.

It will be a hard quarantine for all of those players, who will be restricted to their rooms and unable to train.

They will be released on

September 13, eight days before the opening match in Mackay.

Cricket Australia had to make the shifts because of challenges posed by the pandemic.

“We’ve been really good at quarantining, we did it really well in New Zealand and got some great wraps for the way we embraced it,” Australian coach Matthew Mott said.

“It’s going to be tough for those players, and particularly leading into a Big Bash straight after.”