Philander to fly home earlier due to the changing Covid-19 situation South Africa

Chattogram, Nov 28, : Vernon Philander is a former South Africa quick and is currently on tour with Pakistan as a bowling consultant.

He will be leaving the squad bubble here to fly back to his homeland as soon as Monday, the fourth day, of the ongoing Test match.

This is due to worsening flight operations because of the new Covid variantPhilander was supposed to depart for South Africa at end of the first two Tests.However, a PCB media statement stated at Sundays end that he had to change his plans due to the evolving Covid-19 situation.An Espncricinfo report stated that.

Omicron, a new Covid-19 variant, has already disrupted cricket in Zimbabwe and South Africa and could further impact it in the coming days.After the boards ruled in favor of player safety, the Netherlands tour to the country was cancelled.

Due to new travel restrictions, the ICC Womens Cricket World Cup Qualification 2021 in Zimbabwe was called off.This nine-team tournament was to determine the three teams for 2022 Womens World Cup New Zealand.An India A team is currently touring South Africa with an India A team.

The series will continue as planned, since India has not yet imposed travel restrictions to southern Africa.The senior Indian mens team is also expected to travel to South Africa in the early part of next month for three Tests, three OIs and four T20Is.

At the moment, the status of the tour is unchanged.The possibility of the tour happening will be greatly diminished if the borders are closed between now and December 8-9 when the Indians are expected out.South Africa currently reports around 2000 new cases per day.However, there are concerns that this number will increase exponentially.Therefore, stricter regulations will be introduced soon.

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