"Our sports science is very nervous," Mott to 91.3 Sportfm referred to stitches of Bowlers Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland, Tayla Vlaeminck, Maitlan Brown and Stella Campbell, who are currently in quarantine rooms for two weeks.
Seven international games, including test matches within 20 days, will not allow Australia to involve their first XI in all matches against India in the upcoming series, South Star Head coach Matthew Mott has hinted.
With Sydney and Melbourne being a Covid-19 Hot-Spots, the Indian team and 12 of the 18 Australian players are currently in a hard quarantine of two weeks and according to the 'Cricket.com.au' report, they will leave a week before the first Wodi in Mackay on September 21.
The Indian team will not have access to training facilities during a hard quarantine (room) two weeks.
"Our sports science is very nervous," Mott to 91.3 Sportfm referred to stitches of Bowlers Ellyse Perry, Annabel Sutherland, Tayla Vlaeminck, Maitlan Brown and Stella Campbell, who are currently in quarantine rooms for two weeks.
"Here, they will not bowl for 14 days and will go directly to a very dense schedule, so the management of our players must be right at the point," said Mott.
He explained that all team players would not be able to play every match to maintain workload management in mind.
"Not everyone will play every match, we have 18 in our squad, and we have several young players. The more formidable players will find a way because they have bent it and their bodies are somewhat stronger.
"But for a younger bowler - Darcie Brown, Tayla Vlaeminck, Maitlan Brown - we must be very smart about how we integrate it into it."
Among the Aussie Pacer, Sutherland returned from stress fractures to his upper leg, Brown had recovered from a severe hamstring injury while Vlaeminck had a series of main legs, knees and shoulder injuries"In the ideal world, we have played the latest tests to build the burden gradually, but in the middle," Mott.
"So there is a different bowler that we have to use in various formats and the consequences are we will not be able to play our best team every match - it will be crazy from the fatigue of players and management perspective.
"We will try and make it work but it will be a very interesting series to see how we navigate around the complexity that will be thrown into us."
Mootes call the schedule as very "busy" considering the team hasn't played a lot of cricket since April because of the various state borders that use their own health safety protocol"It would be difficult, it would be nice but would hit us hard. We have gone from not much cricket for a very busy schedule overnight," Mott added.
full schedule
Sep 21: First ODI, Great Barrier Reef Arena, Mackay
24 Sep: Second Odi, Great Barrier Reef Arena, Mackay (D / N)
Sep 26: Odi Third, Great Barrier Reef Arena, Mackay
Sep 30 - October 3: Match Test, Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast (D / N)
7 Oct: First T20, Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast
Oct 9: T20 Second, Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast
October 10: Third T20, Metricon Stadium, Gold Coast.
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