Indian cricket team's throwdown specialist Dayanand Garani has also tested positive for Covid-19 according to a PTI report. "Indian cricket team's throwdown specialist Dayanand Garani tests positive for COVID-19 in England, two others from contingent also isolated," the news agency tweeted. The isolated members of the Indian contingent will reportedly not travel to Durham where the rest of the team is set to re-unite before the practice match. Meanwhile, as per a BCCI source cited by the PTI in a previous report, Pant has been in isolation for eight days and is currently asymptomatic.
BCCI Vice President Rajeev Shukla, earlier spoke to news agency ANI, and without naming the player, said that the person who has tested positive will be tested again after two days. "One player has been found positive, he was asymptomatic, I won't disclose the name. He was not staying in the team hotel, he is staying with relatives and is recovering very well. He is in isolation, he was found positive 8 days back. He will be tested again after two days," Shukla told ANI. The news of the Indian cricketer testing positive comes in the wake of the virus sweeping through the England camp ahead of their limited-overs home series against Pakistan. Last week before the first ODI against Pakistan, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed that seven members of the team including three players and four staff members tested positive for Covid-19.The development forced an overhaul of the England ODI squad, with Ben Stokes being appointed the captain of the team. England clean-swept Pakistan 3-0 in the ODI series.
