In the late of the ongoing calendar year, the Indian national cricket team has very important schedule to tour in Australia. Australia’s Adelaide Oval’s new hotel can be used as the quarantine centre for the Indian team during the upcoming crucial tour.
The Australia tour is the crucial fixture for India in the upcoming 2020/21 season. India will begin this tour with the three-match T20I series against the hosts which will be the perfect preparation for the visitors ahead of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020. Australia will then host the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup 2020 from 18th October to 15th November 2020.
After that tournament, India will play the three-match ODI series and four-match Test series against the hosts Australia. While the ODI series will be the part of the 2020–22 ICC Cricket World Cup Super League, the Test series will also be the part of the 2019–21 ICC World Test Championship.
However, Australia and many other countries in the world are battling against the novel COVID-19 or coronavirus. This virus has set up the doubtful future for the public events in Australia at least for this calendar year. Moreover, according to the present rules in Australia, visitors must have to face 14 days of isolation.
Adelaide Oval’s new hotel has 138 rooms
In the meantime, according to the recent report in “The Age”, the South Australian Cricket Association (SACA) chief Keith Bradshaw has offered the Cricket Australia (CA) chief Kevin Roberts to utilise Adelaide Oval’s new hotel as the quarantine centre for the Indian team. According to that report, the hotel’s value is $42 million which has 138 rooms. The SACA is holding the 50% of stake of this hotel that is expected to open in this September.
Moreover, Kangaroo Island and Rottnest Island are also reportedly getting ready as the self-isolation sites for the visiting teams.
If the Test series against India gets cancelled, the CA will have to bear around $300 million loss from the TV revenue.