IPL 2020: After Suresh Raina, now Harbhajan Singh pulls out of the tournament

Veteran off-spinner Harbhajan Singh has pulled out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2020 due to personal reasons. Harbhajan Singh conveyed his decision to Chennai Super Kings (CSK) on Friday. He became the second CSK player after Suresh Raina to withdraw his name from this year’s IPL, citing personal reasons. While Raina had returned home after traveling with the team to the UAE, Harbhajan had remained in India.

The development comes on the back of some positive news for the Chennai franchise.

All other teams have started training for the 13th edition of the IPL except CSK. The three-time IPL champions had arrived in the UAE along with defending champions Mumbai Indians and Royal Challengers Bangalore on August 21.

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The MS-Dhoni led CSK held a brief training camp in Chennai before leaving for the UAE and were the only team to do so.

On 29th August, Former India cricketer Suresh Raina has pulled out of the upcoming Indian Premier League season citing personal reasons and has returned to India from the United Arab Emirates where the tournament is set to be held.

Recently, The Board of Cricket Council of India has decided to spend 10 crores for over 20,000 Coronavirus tests to be conducted during the Indian premier league (IPL) starting from the 19th of this month.

A senior official informed, “We have engaged VPS Healthcare, a UAE based company to conduct the tests. While I can’t put a number, it will be more than 20,000 tests which would include everyone. Each test would cost BCCI around 200 AED (Dirham) excluding taxes.”

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