IPL 2020 | England and Australia players will be available for KKR’s opening game, confirms Venky Mysore

However, KKR’s CEO Venky Mysore gave a crucial and much-needed update on the issue, confirming that the international players from the two countries would be ready for KKR’s opening fixture on September 23. The franchise has three representatives from England and Australia - Tom Banton, Eoin Morgan and Pat Cummins, who will all have a key role to play in KKR's set-up.

"While they are still negotiating with the authorities, we are reconciled to the fact that we may have to quarantine our three players. They arrive on September 17, but our first game is on September 23, by which time they would've finished their [concessional six-day] quarantine. So it's worked out well, and it's good for the tournament," Mysore told ESPNcricinfo. 

"We told them, 'they're in a bio-secure bubble in UK. What if we brought them on a sanitised charter flight and we took care of all the elements of immigration, testing, contactless stuff and everything to allow them to come right into a bubble here?' To give credit to IPL, they took it very constructively and they have a written Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for that, which says if you're coming from a bubble to another bubble, you don't need the mandatory quarantine period," he added.