Former South Africa captain and now the Cricket South Africa Director, Graeme Smith has empathised with the BCCI after episodes of covid-19 outbreaks in biosecure bubbles of teams leading to an abrupt end of the 14th edition of the Indian Premier League.
He, however, stressed that South African players he had words with confirmed that the biosecure environments they were in were quite safe, but that the nature of Covid-19 does not leave them to as full proof as it appears from the outside.
"In no way would we judge. Having spoken to the players, they felt safe. They felt the BSE [Bio-Secure Environment] was a really good experience in India. They never felt at risk. But that's the nature of what Covid brings,” Smith said in an online press conference.
“Sometimes you can do whatever you want but the BSE - as we've said to everyone - is never foolproof. When Covid is raging in your country there's always a risk. Unfortunately, once it gets inside it's very difficult to predict what's going to happen."
Notably, CSA too had to deal with the issues of biosecure bubble breach when England were touring South Africa last year which led to the abandonment of the tour and then Cricket Australia cancelling a complete tour to South Africa altogether.