LAHORE: The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has urged the players, support personnel and match officials featuring in the HBL Pakistan Super League 2021 to religiously follow the bio-secure and Covid-19 Protocols to ensure the health and safety of all participants.
The PCB has assigned a Covid Compliance Officer (COO) with each side, who will be supervised by the event doctor. The compliance officers will be responsible for player testing, implementation of PCB Covid-19 protocols, sanitization and players’ temperature checks. If required, they will escalate the matter to the event doctor.
Within the hotels, players have been provided with housekeeping and entertainment rooms with separate dining areas/meal rooms and dedicated lifts.
PCB – Director, Medical and Sports Sciences, Dr Sohail Saleem said, “This is an extremely critical phase in the tournament as the sides are in the process of assembling in Karachi”.
“As such, it is important that each side provides a detailed and thorough briefing to their players on the dos and they don’t during the competition so that there are no misunderstandings and the event can not only commence successfully but progress in a safe and secure environment,” Dr Sohail added.
He said, “The PCB Covid-19 Protocols are simple and straightforward but stringent. We implemented these successfully during the domestic and international matches”.
“Like domestic and international teams, the team managements he said, adding the players are ultimately responsible and will have to take the ownership of following the protocols as reputation and integrity of the competition, as well as health and safety of all participants rests with all the competitors”.
As per the PCB Covid-19 Protocols, all participants entering the bubble require two negative tests and a mandatory 72-hour quarantine period before being allowed to resume training and integrating with all members. As the Pakistan T20I members had moved from the Lahore bubble, they required a 24-hour quarantine period besides a negative test.
