Shikhar Dawn, Shreyas Iyer And Ruturaj Gaikwad Test Covid Positive Ahead Of West Indies Series: Report
A COVID-19 flare-up hit the Indian cricket crew on Wednesday as three players - - senior opener Shikhar Dhawan, save opener Ruturaj Gaikwad and center request hitter Shreyas Iyer - - tried positive for the infection during their compulsory disengagement period before the beginning of West Indies series.
According to data got, seven individuals, including net bowler Navdeep Saini, have up to this point tried positive for COVID-19. Saini is likewise on reserve list. The Indian group gathered in Ahmedabad on January 31 for the impending white-ball series against the West Indies and were going through a three-day disengagement period post their break from the South Africa series.
The series begins in Ahmedabad on February 6 with India's 1000th ODI match yet it is currently an inescapable result that the triplet will be feeling the loss of the series as they should go through seven days in length confinement and afterward get back with two pessimistic RT-PCR tests.
"Three players - - Ruturaj Gaikwad, Shreyas Iyer and Shikhar Dhawan have tried positive. Anyway there are various COVID positive cases among non-instructing regulatory care staff. It very well may be between two to four individuals," a veteran BCCI official told PTI on states of namelessness.
"Different names that can be affirmed are net bowler Navdeep Saini, masseur Rajiv Kumar. There are two different cases, one being important for group's safety crew and the other is among the drivers," the source informed.
"The players are to a great extent asymptomatic and ideally will be fine before the finish of the seclusion time frame. You feel awful for Shikhar as he would need to miss the series and he isn't a piece of T20 crew," the authority added.
Considerably more baffling is youthful Ruturaj Gaikwad's case as this is the second time in one and a half years that he has tried positive for COVID-19.
"Assuming you recollect, Ruturaj had tried positive in UAE during the 2020 IPL and went through a lot of hardship. He had a 14-day quarantine in those days and missed first piece of the period in quite a while. This is the second time he has tried positive," the authority said.
It is affirmed that commander Rohit Sharma, senior players like Virat Kohli and mentor Rahul Dravid have all tried negative as of Wednesday.
"They have returned negative starting today." All the people who tried pessimistic will finish their compulsory detachment on Thursday. They will enter the air pocket, assuming that they test negative again on Thursday.
"The testing convention set by BCCI clinical group is for consistently RT-PCR as RAT (Rapid Antigen Test) is frequently not convincing. In spite of the fact that groups are provided with RAT packs on the off chance that any player shows manifestations and needs to do an individual test," the veteran authority said.
It is normal that M Shahrukh Khan, R Sai Kishore, Rishi Dhawan, who are stand byes for the series, will currently get an examine to be in the crew.
All things considered, Venkatesh Iyer, an expert opener in the T20 crew, or Jharkhand's Ishan Kishan could be tested.
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