Ian Chappell: IPL a good warm-up for India-Australia cricket series

The coming IPL season will be good practice for India’s players ahead of their highly anticipated series Down Under in December, says former Australian captain Ian Chappell.

“With venue bubbles, isolation rules, social distancing, and a number of changes to playing conditions, adapting to international competition has been testing for players,” Chappell wrote on the Cricinfo website.

“It’s made life difficult and different even in a team environment but imagine the individual’s dilemma in enforced isolation with a tour looming,”

But those cricketers taking part in the T20 competition at least have “some challenging IPL cricket” in the lead-up to the series, Chappell was quoted as saying by AFP.

Indian and international cricketers — including several Australians — are currently in the UAE ahead of the Indian Premier League Twenty20 tournament which starts on Sept. 19.