The India tour of Australia is yet to begin on the field but off-field instances of reckoning have started making headlines as a light plane has crashed at the Cromer Park, situated just 30 kilometres away from the Sydney Olympic Park where the Indian team are reading in their quarantine period. Reportedly, the engine of that plane had stopped working and it crashed at the Cromer Park around 4:30 PM on November 14.
A senior vice-president of the Cromer Cricket Club, Greg Rollins, said that after he saw the smokes coming from the plane, he thought of asking the players to get out of the field. He asked players to run off the ground and all followed the instructions to save themselves from the crash.
"I yelled out to the guys in the shed, I just said run. They started running. The plane started to smoke and I thought we had to get these guys out. The plane looked like it was going to blow up. The victims were still conscious but they were ‘not in a good way’. One guy, his face wasn’t good. They hit hard enough to do a lot of damage but they’re alive, that’s the main thing,” Rollins was quoted as saying by stuff.co.nz.
The Indian team had reached Sydney on Thursday, November 12 and after the players cleared the first round of COVID-19 testing, they have been allowed to train outdoors and prepare for the gruelling tour that will start from November 27.
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