It is the 19th of November and we do not have a schedule for the international summer of cricket.
India is slated to travel to Australia for a Test series, but it has not yet been determined when they will be arriving, when the matches will be played or the quarantine arrangements and allowances.
The Australian reported on Sunday that the Indian players, staff and families will need to do undergo a full 14-day quarantine period when they arrive in Queensland and they will not be allowed to train.
Gerard Whateley gave his summation of the issue.
“There’s a clear source of tension, which is why there’s no international fixture yet, around the Queensland government and convincing health officials that India can quarantine in Brisbane and be allowed to train,” Whateley told SEN's Whateley.
“This feels on the edge right now. Is that right.”
Veteran cricket journalist Robert Craddock agreed and gave some insight into the current situation.
“It is on the edge Gerard. It’s a story that will get bigger before it gets smaller,” Craddock told SEN’s Whateley.
“There’s meetings today. Cricket is saying ‘hang on, we had the New Zealand girls in a hub here and they could train’ and Queensland health are saying ‘ah, yeah, but there’s virtually no coronavirus in New Zealand. You are taking players from India, a squad of 60 family and everyone from hotspots all over India, into Queensland – sorry, they have to quarantine’.
“They loosely quarantined in Dubai, but (the Queensland government) is extra stringent. There is an election (in Queensland) in two weeks time and the government is desperate to avoid any sort of disaster.
“I really do believe cricket is paying the price for not having good governmental relations, in a Peter V’Landys sort of way.
“I’ll cut them this, it’s much harder to organise India than it is to organise Geelong, Richmond or the Melbourne Storm because they’re really firmly under your auspices.
“I just can’t believe that this schedule has been worked on for months and months and months and it’s still up in the air.
“As uncertain as it has been, it is on knife’s edge because if this tour does not go ahead, there is a 100-million dollar hole in the finances of Australian cricket.”