Michael Slater accused the Australian prime minister Scott Morrison of having “blood on your hands” for banning citizens from returning home from India.
The former Test batsman is working as a commentator at the IPL, and is one of a number of Australians involved in the tournament.
Australia suspended direct passenger flights from India last week. The ban, to last until at least May 15, still allowed people to fly in through a third country until Saturday, when the new measure announcing a full ban closed that loophole.
The government has threatened to punish breaches with fines of around $50,000 and five years’ imprisonment.
Kane Richardson and Adam Zampa returned home last month, as the huge surge in Covid cases in India took hold.
A number of their compatriots have stayed on, with the likes of fast bowler Pat Cummins and commentator Brett Lee pledging substantial financial donations to the aid effort.
Slater is furious with the new policy that means no clear route home for the Australians in India.
“If our government cared for the safety of Aussies they would allow us to get home,” Slater wrote on Twitter.
“It's a disgrace. Blood on your hands PM. How dare you treat us like this?
“How about you sort out quarantine system? I had government permission to work on the IPL but I now have government neglect.”
The remainder of the IPL season is in doubt after two Kolkata Knight Riders players tested positive for Covid.
There were also reports of positive cases within the Chennai Super Kings backroom staff, as well as among the groundstaff at Delhi.
India reported more than 300,000 new coronavirus cases on Monday for the 12th consecutive day, taking its overall caseload to nearly 20 million.
"And for those who think this is a money exercise, well forget it," Slater wrote in a later tweet.
"This is what I do for a living and I have not made a penny having left early.
"So please stop the abuse and think of the thousands dying in India each day.
"It's called empathy. If only our government had some!"
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Sheikh Zayed's poem
When it is unveiled at Abu Dhabi Art, the Standing Tall exhibition will appear as an interplay of poetry and art. The 100 scarves are 100 fragments surrounding five, figurative, female sculptures, and both sculptures and scarves are hand-embroidered by a group of refugee women artisans, who used the Palestinian cross-stitch embroidery art of tatreez. Fragments of Sheikh Zayed’s poem Your Love is Ruling My Heart, written in Arabic as a love poem to his nation, are embroidered onto both the sculptures and the scarves. Here is the English translation.
Your love is ruling over my heart
Your love is ruling over my heart, even a mountain can’t bear all of it
Woe for my heart of such a love, if it befell it and made it its home
You came on me like a gleaming sun, you are the cure for my soul of its sickness
Be lenient on me, oh tender one, and have mercy on who because of you is in ruins
You are like the Ajeed Al-reem [leader of the gazelle herd] for my country, the source of all of its knowledge
You waddle even when you stand still, with feet white like the blooming of the dates of the palm
Oh, who wishes to deprive me of sleep, the night has ended and I still have not seen you
You are the cure for my sickness and my support, you dried my throat up let me go and damp it
Help me, oh children of mine, for in his love my life will pass me by.
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