Australia and RCB spinner Adam Zampa has backed his decision of leaving the Indian Premier League midway with the reasoning that he wasn’t finding enough motivation to stay in the bubble. The leggie also went on to say that the IPL bubble was the most vulnerable he had been a part of since the Covid outbreak.
“We’ve been in a few [bubbles] now, and I feel like this is probably the most vulnerable,” Zampa was quoted as saying by India Today.
Terming the Covid situation in Inda as ‘pretty dire’, Zampa said, “I just felt, rocking up to training and stuff, obviously, I wasn’t playing in the team as well, I was going to training and I wasn’t finding the motivation.”
Reasoning that the travel ban by Australia for all the flights coming from India put pressure on his decision-making the 29-year-old said, “[There were] a few other things like bubble fatigue and the chance to get home, once all the news broke about the flights and everything. I thought this was the best time to make the call.”
The Melbourne Stars player further went on to express his views on how an IPL in Dubai could have been a preferred option, saying that hygiene and personal safety-wise, Dubai is a better place compared to India.
“Personally, I feel like that would have been a better option originally for this IPL but obviously, there’s a lot of political stuff that goes into it,” he said.
Saying that World T20 is going to be the next big decision in the cricketing World, Zampa believes that cricket in times of such devastating covid attack in India might not be the right thing to carry forward. “Someone who has a family member on their deathbed probably doesn’t care about the cricket,” said the legging who is still stuck in Mumbai due to the flight ban.