The second wave of corona virus also broke the bio-bubble created by the BCCI and one player after another started reporting COVID-19 positive.
Kolkata Knight Riders' Varun Chakraborty, Sandeep Warriors, famous Krishna and Team Seifert, Chennai Super Kings' Michael Hussey and Laxmipati Balaji, Delhi Capitals' Amit Mishra and Sunrisers Hyderabad's Wriddhiman Saha tested covid positive. All of them have recovered from the diease and gone home.
New Zealand cricketer and KKR batsman Tim Seifert shared his recalled his experience after testing COVID-19 positive and broke down during an online media interaction.
The player was asked to stay in quarantine in India even as his countrymen left for home in a chartered flight with the IPL 2021 suspended earlier this month. He tested negative last week before returning home.
“The Chennai Super Kings manager showed me the positive on the top of the test. The world stops and I just couldn’t really think what was next and that was the scariest part of it – you hear about the bad things and I thought that was going to happen to me,” said Seifert who is currently in the midst of 14-day isolation at home
“Brendon McCullum and Stephen Fleming made everything a lot easier,” Seifert said. “They made sure that things would be put in place and the CSK management and CEO of KKR, they made life easy for me to know that everything would be alright and when that time was to come home, they’d try everything to get me home safely.”
“It was definitely hard getting told but once a few days had gone by and everything had calmed down a bit… I just knew it was about getting through it and thinking of the positives,” he added.
The wicketkeeper-batter is getting married in two months. “My fiance was quite happy I’m back a bit earlier so I can help with all the planning,” he said.
