Fierce debate has continued for weeks about the continuation of the IPL in India, as the country's COVID-19 situation continues to spiral out of control.<\/p>\n
About a dozen Australian cricketers are still in India playing in the IPL<\/a>, including Pat Cummins, Steve Smith, David Warner, Glenn Maxwell and Chris Lynn \u2013 while many others have already returned home.<\/p>\n Last night's scheduled match between Kolkata and Royal Challengers Bangalore was postponed<\/a> after confirmation of the positive cases amongst the Knight Riders playing group.<\/p>\n India recorded more than 368,000 coronavirus infections yesterday<\/a>, and 3417 deaths from the disease.<\/p>\n On Monday, Australian players Pat Cummins, Ben Cutting from Kolkata, and Jason Behrendorff, who was brought into the Super Kings as a replacement for Josh Hazelwood, all tested negative.<\/p>\n Mike and David Hussey who are assistant coaches for Chennai and Kolkata respectively, also tested negative.<\/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<\/strong><\/em> clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n