Upcoming India’s tour of Sri Lanka is set to be limited to the capital Colombo as all the six games of the ODI and T20I series are all but finalised to be played at the Premadasa Stadium only, Sportstar reported quoting Sri Lanka Cricket official.
"We plan to host the entire series at one venue. As of now, it has been decided that the Premadasa Stadium will host the fixtures. Obviously, it depends on how the situation is around that time," Professor Arjuna de Silva, SLC's Administrative Committee chairman, told Sportstar.
Discussing the modalities of the biosecure bubbles and planning behind the tour in terms of quarantine of players and biosecure bubbles. De Silva said that Indian players will have to go through a hard quarantine for the first three days followed by the last four days when they will be allowed to train.
However, he did not rule out any change in the plan and said if the health ministry revises its guidelines, the SLC will have to follow.
“As of now, we will stick to the protocol where the players will have to undergo hard quarantine for the first three days and in the next four days, they will be allowed to train. However, if there are any revised guidelines by the health ministry around that time, we will have to follow that," he added.
Notably, India’s tour of Sri Lanka was announced by the BCCI President Sourav Ganguly, who also confirmed that none of the Indian players on the tour of the UK will be able to return for the series against Sri Lanka. Hence, India are likely to send a completely new squad to the island nation which will only have Shikhar Dhawan, Hardik Pandya and Bhuvneshwar Kumar as experienced players.