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<br>The mission to keep the fourth Test at the Gabba has been given a boost with confirmation players will not need to quarantine in their own hotel room.<br> <br>India's frustrations over the planned quarantine conditions in Queensland threw doubt over the venue of the series finale on Sunday, with the tourists reportedly wanting a move from Brisbane.<br> <br>That was met with a firm resistance by Australia's players, who see the Gabba as their fortress and none of whom would remember seeing the team lose a Test there.<br> <br>At the heart of India's issues is believed to be a frustration that they have already served a 14-day quarantine on entry to the country, and don't want to endure it again.<br> <br>The tourists were particularly put off by any suggestion they would need to isolate in their own hotel rooms, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour hà giang] only allowed to leave to go the ground to train or play.<br> <br>But while Queensland's chief health officer Dr Jeannette Young said the state would not bend rules given they were coming from a COVID hot spot in Sydney, players could mix inside the hotel.<br> <br>"They will be confined to the hotel. We have worked with them they can have bubbles within that hotel," Dr Young said.<br> <br>"Because they are going to be going and playing with colleagues in the matches so they will have exposure there.<br> <br>"So it doesn't expose me if they have [http://imageshack.us/photos/exposure exposure] to each other in the hotel."<br> <br>Cricket Australia say no official approach has been made about the Test, while SCG staff have previously indicated they could prepare a pitch for a second straight Test if needed.<br> <br>But Australian players are adamant the match should stay in Brisbane, expecting sacrifices to be made from the relative freedom they have had in Adelaide and Melbourne.<br> <br>"If (play-in-quarantine) is what the [http://search.usa.gov/search?affiliate=usagov&query=government government] are going to make us do to play a game at the Gabba then we're willing to sacrifice," Matthew Wade said on Sunday.<br> <br>"I knew going into it, [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour hà nội hà giang] a lot of the players knew coming into it, it wasn't going to be an ideal situation.<br> <br>"And if something went south we were going to make some more sacrifices along the way."<br> <br>Australia have not lost a Test at the Gabba since 1988, with their 32-year unbeaten streak the longest of any team at any ground in world cricket.<br> <br>"Our record's very good there and we tend to play good cricket there," Wade said.<br> <br>"If it went to games back to back at the SCG that would obviously not be something that we will want to do.<br> <br>"We would be much more comfortable going and playing the schedule as it rolls."<br> <br>With the series locked at 1-1, both teams will leave Melbourne for Sydney on Monday for the third Test before the series finale in Brisbane on January 15.<br> <br>India's Rohit Sharma, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, Prithvi Shaw and Navdeep Saini as the BCCI investigate if they broke protocols by eating inside at a Melbourne restaurant.<br> <br>Teams have enjoyed relative freedom so far on the [https://www.kynghidongduong.vn/tours/tour-du-lich-ha-giang-cao-nguyen-da-dong-van-3-ngay-2-dem.html tour hà giang], but restrictions will tighten in Sydney due to the outbreak before the play-under-quarantine conditions in Brisbane that have frustrated India.<br> <br>"We aren't keen on going to Brisbane if it means being stuck in the hotel again, except for going to the ground," a source from within India's camp told Cricbuzz.<br> <br>"Instead we don't mind being in some other city, playing both Test matches there."<br>
