A truck rollover in the midst of a heaving bridge has wreaked havoc with the Hobart Hurricanes’ preparation for tomorrow evening’s conflict with the Perth Scorchers, bringing peak hour site visitors within the Tasmanian capital to a standstill.
The Hurricanes had been on account of land in Perth on Monday afternoon in time for the Optus Stadium blockbuster, however solely half of their touring occasion arrived, with others caught in grid-locked site visitors on their approach to the airport.
The remainder of the squad is now on account of arrive late this night — greater than 24 hours after they had been anticipated to — in a hiccup for the resurgent Hurricanes earlier than their huge take a look at towards the Big Bash ladder-leaders.
The driver of the truck was the one passenger onboard and was earlier at this time in a secure situation after being rescued by means of a window.
His truck flipped in a single-vehicle incident on the heaving Tasman Bridge.
Perth-born Hurricanes star Tim David performed down the impact of the delays on the membership’s preparation, with the expertise of final season’s COVID bubbles — which included some same-day journey — steeling golf equipment for troublesome eventualities.
“The truck flipping over on the bridge yesterday threw a bit of a hurdle for us, so we have got a couple of guys that unfortunately didn’t make the flight, so we’re looking forward to seeing them when they get here,” he mentioned.
“I feel we’re kind of used to it now, we play lots of video games in every single place so guys have their very own particular person preparations so we’re able to go.
David is certainly one of as much as 5 Claremont-Nedlands gamers that might take the sphere in tomorrow evening’s conflict, alongside teammate Joel Paris and Scorchers Stephen Eskinazi, Matt Kelly and Nick Hobson.
He mentioned he met together with his previous junior and membership teammates at this time earlier than going through off on Wednesday evening.
