MUMBAI: BCCI President and former India captain Sourav Ganguly on Tuesday revealed that he underwent as many as 22 COVID-19 tests in the past four and a half months while trying to navigate his professional commitments amid the raging pandemic.
Ganguly was kept busy by the conduct of the Indian Premier League in the UAE from mid-September to early November.
“I must tell you I have got tested 22 times in the last four and half months and not been positive even once, I have had cases around me, so that probably forced me to get tested myself,” Ganguly said at a virtual media conference where he was brand ambassador of Livinguard AG, a hygiene technology brand.”
“…I stay with elderly parents and I have travelled to Dubai and in the initial part, I was very worried, not just for me, but the community, you don’t want to spread it to somebody else because people are looking up to you,” he added.
The Board President also talked about the much-hyped tour of Australia by the national team, which completed its quarantine period on Tuesday in Sydney.
India start their tour of Australia with the first ODI on November 27 at the Sydney Cricket Ground.
“…The players are fit and fine, Australia also doesn’t have a very high number of COVID cases, the borders were closed for a while…They are still very, very tight on international travel, you have to do 14 days of hard quarantine, so the boys are ready to get onto the field,” the BCCI chief said. (AGENCIES)
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