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Australia pacer Kane Richardson has said he and other Australian players are waiting to hear from Indian Premier League (IPL) about the next step after the cash-rich tournament was postponed due to coronavirus outbreak.
Seventeen Australians hold Indian Premier League contracts, which was scheduled to start on March 29 but has been suspended till April 15.
“We’re just waiting to hear,” Richardson told cricket.com.au’s The Unplayable Podcast where he detailed about the quarantine experience he had to undergo after complaining of a sore throat before the first ODI of the Chappell Hadlee series, which now stands cancelled.
“A lot of the blokes have opinions – ‘it’s going to get cancelled’, this and that – but again it can change in a day or a week, so I’ll just sit by the phone and get ready to play for the 15th at the moment – that’s what I’m thinking.
“(The Australia squad) were all sitting around chatting about it. It’s happened out of nowhere.
“A lot of us were going to be away from now til the end of the IPL, so to now be sitting at home with absolutely no idea when the next game of cricket is going to be for any of us, just shows how quickly this has grown.
“Even a week ago we were flying back from South Africa and there was no thought of coronavirus at all in the air or when we got back to the airport.
