IPL 2021: CSK coach Mike Hussey and his travel in a ‘body bag’ in India after contracting COVID-19

Chennai Super Kings made the call to relocate Mike Hussey and the bowling coach Lakshmipathy Balaji to Chennai from the Mumbai bio-bubble, where they felt he would have greater access to care.

Former Australia batsman and Chennai Super Kings (CSK) assistant coach Mike Hussey shared the trauma he experienced after contracting COVID-19 during the first leg of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021 in India. The CSK batting coach along with bowling coach Lakshmipathy Balaji tested positive in May this year, just before the IPL 2021 was suspended due to rising COVID-19 cases in India. “The Chennai Super Kings medical staff were pretty darn good,” Hussey was quoted as saying by SEN WA’s on Gilly & Goss. “They were a little bit concerned if my condition went south, and I started to deteriorate, that they couldn’t get me the medical support that I needed. There were so many cases in Delhi, and we were getting reports there were 100 hospital beds available with oxygen for the whole of Delhi. “And 10,000 people in Delhi lined up around the streets trying to get into these hospitals to get the medical support they needed,” the former Australia southpaw added.