Pakistan's tour for England is in danger as three players tested positive for COVID-19


Pakistan's tour for England is in danger as three players tested positive for COVID-19

  • Three players from Pakistan crew for England tour are reported to test positive for COVID-19
  • Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, and Shadab Khan are the players to confirm for the positive test
  • The Pakistan tour for England is in danger if other players from 24 men squad tested positive


Three individuals from the Pakistan cricket team selected for England tour this late spring have tested positive for coronavirus.

Batsman Haider Ali, 19, quick bowler Haris Rauf, 26, and spinner Shadab Khan, 21, were all asymptomatic however tried positive on Sunday. 

They all now be self-isolate for fourteen days before undergoing for testing again.

Pakistan is because of fly to England on 28 June for three Tests and three Twenty20s in August and September.

It has not been affirmed whether the trio will be expelled from the crew yet they have been advised to self-separate.

However, on the off chance that more individuals from Pakistan's 29-man crew for the visit to England – containing three Tests in August and three Twenty20 internationals – are determined to have the infection on Tuesday, there is a risk the visit could be canceled out, leaving the ECB in edgy waterways as they endeavor to moderate monetary misfortunes during the pandemic.

They are currently holding on to perceive how the circumstance in Pakistan unfolds, yet it is a worry that the three positive tests originated from a group of just five cricketers situated in Rawalpindi.

The news follows an admonition from the Pakistan Cricket Board's chief of sports medication about the dangers engaged with going during the pandemic.

Pakistan name crew for England visit 


Azhar Ali (Test captain), Babar Azam (T20 captain), Abid Ali, Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Shan Masood, Asad Shafiq, Fawad Alam, Haider Ali, Iftikhar Ahmad, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hafeez, Shoaib Malik, Mohammad Rizwan (wk), Sarfaraz Ahmed (wk), Faheem Ashraf, Haris Rauf, Imran Khan, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Hasnain, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi, Sohail Khan, Usman Shinwari, Wahab Riaz, Imad Wasim, Kashif Bhatti, Shadab Khan, and Yasir Shah.  

The positive tests arrived in a series of testing for the crew before the visit, with two different players - Imad Wasim and Usman Shinwari - returning negative outcomes. 

The rest of the 29-man crew's test outcomes are normal on Tuesday.
Four players - Bilal Asif, Imran Butt, Musa Khan, and Mohammad Nawaz - had been named as stores for the crew on the off chance that a player tested positive.

Britain is at present planning to confront West Indies in a three-coordinate Test arrangement beginning on 8 July with the voyagers at present isolating at Emirates Old Trafford.

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