Chappell had been booted from a venue at which a grandstand is named after him.<\/p>\n
The 75-Test great was last night told he had tested negative but says his next moves are uncertain.<\/p>\n
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"Well, I'm waiting for some bastard to tell me. But I'm hopefully on the plane tomorrow (back to Sydney)," Chappell told Wide World of Sports<\/em>.<\/p>\n "I've got no chance of being there at the Boxing Day Test (on commentary duty). I'd say we're going to have to do it with a Melbourne-only crew."<\/p>\n Chappell is among a host of figures in Australian cricket whose professional lives have been rattled by the outbreak on the Northern Beaches.<\/p>\n Former Australian paceman Brett Lee is a Northern Beaches resident and last Friday rushed home from Adelaide Oval<\/a>, where he had been commentating, to avoid missing out on Christmas with his family.<\/p>\n Shortly after, Sydney-based Test squad members David Warner and Sean Abbott were flown to Melbourne early<\/a>, so they could quarantine ahead of the arrival of the rest of the squad for the Boxing Day Test.<\/p>\n The outbreak also wreaked havoc for a host of Northern Beaches residents employed by broadcasters Fox and Seven, as well as Cricket Australia staff.<\/p>\n Cricket Australia is determined to keep the New Year Test at its traditional venue – the SCG – but the surge of the virus in Sydney could force the governing body to relocate the third Test<\/a>.<\/p>\n "It's been a bizarre year," Chappell said.<\/p>\n "You've just got to get on with life – that's how I've always been. Whatever you've got to do, you've got to do it."<\/p>\n For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n