Indian cricketer in England checks optimistic, quarantined

A participant of the Indian cricket workforce in England has examined optimistic for Covid -19 virus and is staying in dwelling isolation in the intervening time, The Indian Express has learnt. The participant is dwelling quarantined at his kin’ place at current and is prone to be part of the tour get together in Durham later.
The Indian squad sans the participant will return to bio-bubble in Durham on Thursday.
Sources mentioned the participant skilled a sore throat, which led to a Covid check and it returned optimistic. His teammates and assist employees, who got here in touch with the participant, have been stored in isolation for 3 days they usually have accomplished their isolation interval.
On Wednesday, chief selector Chetan Sharma met BCCI president Sourav Ganguly in Kolkata, however each have been tight-lipped about what transpired within the assembly.
The information of the Indian cricketer testing optimistic comes within the wake of the virus sweeping by means of the England camp forward of their limited-overs dwelling sequence towards Pakistan. Last week earlier than the primary ODI towards Pakistan, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed that seven members of the workforce together with three gamers and 4 employees members examined optimistic for Covid-19.
The improvement compelled an overhaul of the England ODI squad, with Ben Stokes being appointed the captain of the workforce.
A second-string England clean-swept Pakistan 3-0 within the ODI sequence, however the query of how the virus breached the bubble was left answered.
In his assertion, ECB chief government Tom Harrison talked about the Delta variant of the virus with out revealing if the squad members have been affected by it.
“We have been mindful that the emergence of the Delta variant, along with our move away from the stringent enforcement of biosecure environments, could increase the chances of an outbreak. We made a strategic choice to try to adapt protocols, in order to support the overall wellbeing of our players and management staff who have spent much of the last 14 months living in very restricted conditions,” Harrison had mentioned.
Sri Lanka toured England earlier than the Pakistan sequence and upon returning dwelling, they’d a virus outbreak of their camp, which compelled the postponement of their limited-overs sequence towards India. After Sri Lanka’s batting coach Grant Flower and knowledge analyst GT Niroshan have been examined optimistic, the sequence was pushed again to July 18 as a substitute of its scheduled graduation on July 13.
The Indian gamers have been allowed to depart the bio-bubble in England and hung out on their very own after the World Test Championship ultimate that ended on June 23. The BCCI permitted their departure from the bubble with the instruction that the gamers and the assist employees ought to enter the bubble once more mid-July forward of their five-Test sequence towards England. The first Test begins on August 4.