Eight of the 11 England players in the IPL landed at London’s Heathrow Airport on Wednesday morning.

They will now have to be in mandatory quarantine for 10 days in government-approved hotels.

Those who have reached London are Jos Buttler, Moeen Ali, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, Chris Woakes, Johnny Bairstow, Jason Roy and Sam Billings. They are believed to have flown by commercial flights.

According to an ECB spokesperson, Eoin Morgan, Chris Jordan and Dawid Malan are expected to leave India within the next 48 hours.

While most of the Indian players, except those down with Covid-19, were also on their way back home, the overseas players are leaving in batches. The South African players left for Johannesburg by commercial flight out of Mumbai on Wednesday evening.

AB de Villiers, however, is travelling separately and is expected to fly via Doha.

Mumbai Indians have organised transfer of all their overseas players by charter flights and has also offered other franchises to join them. The New Zealand-bound players are likely to be joined by their countrymen from other franchises.

It was also learnt that the flight for Trinidad will go via Johannesburg where it will drop its South African players.

Of the 17 New Zealanders in the IPL, some will go to the UK to participate in the England Test series followed by the World Test Championship final against India, along with a few who are participating in the T20 Blast. The others will leave for New Zealand.

The UK-bound group includes Kane Williamson, Trent Boult, Kyle Jamieson, Mitchell Santner, Chris Donaldson (trainer) and Tommy Simsek (physio). Lockie Ferguson, Jimmy Neesham and Finn Allen will feature in the T20 Blast starting June 9. Williamson will also be a part of The Hundred, to be played from July 21.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly confirmed to The Telegraph that the Australians in the IPL will fly home via Maldives, where they will quarantine for 10 days. The BCCI and Cricket Australia have organised a charter flight for the contingent.

Nick Hockley, the CA interim chief executive, was all praise for the BCCI’s efforts.

“I was on the phone with my counterpart less than an hour ago and I can’t speak more highly for how the BCCI but also all of the franchises have worked to look after our players and put in plans to make sure that they get home safely and as quickly as possible,” Hockley was quoted as saying.

CSK batting coach Mike Hussey, infected with Covid-19, will quarantine in Delhi.