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9.50am local time/4.20am IST: More doubts over Brisbane
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Good morning all! Welcome to the second day of the SCG Test. I didn’t mean to start off on this note but it now appears that the BCCI has written to Cricket Australia that India will not be able to travel to Brisbane for the final Test of the ongoing series if they will have to undergo another round of hard quarantine. Get all the details here, by Nagraj Gollapudi.
At the SCG, meanwhile, the sun is coming out, says Gnasher who also has an update on Brisbane:
There’s a bit of developing news regarding Brisbane, the location for the final Test, with the city going into a three-day lockdown after a person tested positive for the UK strain of Covid-19. We don’t yet know if that will have an impact on this series – there have been plenty of discussions between CA and BCCI over the hotel quarantine situation.
Vishal Dikshit is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo
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