The largest fears of the Indian cricket board nearly got here true on Wednesday night as two India A staff coaches in South Africa examined constructive for Covid-19 initially earlier than additional investigation confirmed their end result as ‘false positives’.
The India A staff is taking part in its final four-day sport in Bloemfontein and all gamers, together with the assist employees, underwent RT-PCR assessments on Wednesday morning. As all of the gamers’ assessments returned detrimental, the staff determined to proceed the sport.
Dr Shuaib Manjra, the chief medical officer of Cricket South Africa, instructed The Indian Express: “On further investigation, the labs confirmed the test as negative, indicating that the initial result was a false positive.”
After the preliminary constructive outcomes, the 2 coaches had been requested to isolate for the subsequent 24 hours.
It is learnt that the India A assist employees obtained to know in regards to the coaches testing constructive throughout the third day’s play in Bloemfontein. The match carried on as the 2 coaches went again to the lodge and remoted themselves.
The India A video games are being performed in a bio-bubble.
It is learnt that earlier than the tour sport kicked on, one of many coaches, Sairaj Bahutule, had a fever and remoted himself in his room for 2 days. His report got here again detrimental then.
The BCCI had despatched Bahutule as bowling coach, Saurashtra’s Sitanshu Kotak as batting coach and Assam’s Subhadeep Ghosh as fielding coach.
The senior Indian staff has delayed its tour to South Africa by every week after there was a proliferation of infections from the brand new Covid variant Omicron in that nation. The squad will now depart for South Africa on December 16.