IPL 2021: SRH pacer Natarajan opts to stay in team bubble owing to 7-day quarantine rule

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Xtra Time Web Desk: An issue with his knee has kept Sunrisers Hyderabad pacer T. Natarajan out of action in the Indian Premier League this year. He faces a precarious problem, however, in the form of bio-bubble rules, which would see him quarantined for 7 days if he were to leave the bubble to go and get a scan done.

This was confirmed by the Sunrisers Hyderabad captain David Warner, who said, Given the circumstances in these bubbles, if he goes and gets a scan, he obviously has to sit out for seven days; he has to go back into quarantine. We are just monitoring at the moment. The physios are doing their best to analyze from a face point of view. But he obviously has to go and have a scan at some point.”

The statement from Warner comes after Natarajan’s exclusion from the SRH team for their last two IPL games. Natarajan rose to prominence after last year’s edition of the IPL, due to his ability to bowl good yorkers, making him difficult to score against in the death overs. He made his debut for India in the Australia tour in a surprise turn of events, despite being picked as a net bowler, and since then, he has played 1 test, 4 T20Is and 2 ODIs for India.