IPL 2020 | No fans, hotel-room training, balcony interaction: Players adapt to Martian atmosphere in UAE
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Clad in a white full-body protection suit with a mask covering his face, R Ashwin walked into the empty hotel lobby in Dubai. Wearing gloves and a face shield, a hotel staff greeted him from a distance of few metres and maintaining the same distance he led the veteran cricketer through the lobby area. On normal days, there would have been a huge crowd near the hotel entrance, even in the UAE, and Ashwin would have been shown the way to the entrance by a couple of guards who seemed to keep off the overwhelmed crowds at bay. In the lobby area, the greeting would have included some traditional Dubai ritual, a handshake probably. But times have changed significantly over the last six months. Probably that is why Ashwin captioned his arrival in Dubai tweeting, "Mission Mars!"
Clad in a white full-body protection suit with a mask covering his face, R Ashwin walked into the empty hotel lobby in Dubai. Wearing gloves and a face shield, a hotel staff greeted him from a distance of few metres and maintaining the same distance he led the veteran cricketer through the lobby area. On normal days, there would have been a huge crowd near the hotel entrance, even in the UAE, and Ashwin would have been shown the way to the entrance by a couple of guards who seemed to keep off the overwhelmed crowds at bay. In the lobby area, the greeting would have included some traditional Dubai ritual, a handshake probably. But times have changed significantly over the last six months. Probably that is why Ashwin captioned his arrival in Dubai tweeting, "Mission Mars!"
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