The Indian women’s cricket team is in the middle of their 14-day quarantine in Brisbane but is overwhelmed with the rooms they have been allotted at the government's institutional quarantine facility.  

On Thursday, a BCCI official revealed the truth about the kind of rooms and facilities that were being provided to the Women in Blue and how they “somehow” managed to make it through the day, eagerly waiting for the isolation period to get over.

“The rooms are way too small. You barely manage to move around and do some training. There are no guards manning the place like the players witnessed in the UK but it is very strict,” they told the Press Trust of India (PTI).

"The food served though is okay and there is change in menu everyday. It will be a challenging two weeks," the official said.

Ever since the COVID-19 virus became a global phenomenon, Australia was one of the first countries to introduce some of the most stringent laws against international travels and got themselves cut off from the majority of the world with the hopes of keeping the disease at bay.

Their rules are so strict that when the 2021 edition of the Indian Premier League had to be paused in the middle because of a breach of the bio-bubble, their own national players were not allowed to go back home.

In fact, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) had to instead make arrangements for them to spend a few days of quarantine in the Maldives before getting a chartered flight to travel back home. They were then made to isolate for some more days before they could be out in the public in Australia.

As far as the India-Australia series is concerned, Harmanpreet Kaur’s squad will spend over a month and a half playing across all formats of the game during their time down under. Originally, the plan was to have three Women's One Day International (WODI) matches in September across multiple cities, a day/night Test match at the Carrara Stadium in Queensland between 30 September and 3 October, and three Women's Twenty20 Internationals in October.

COVID-19 restrictions in multiple states of Australia have forced the change of venues to Mackay and Carrara in Queensland from Sydney and Melbourne.#AUSvIND

However, due to an increase in the number of cases in Sydney, Perth, and Melbourne and the resulting restrictions imposed in these cities, all of these matches are scheduled to take place in Queensland alone now. 

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