{"id":100470,"date":"2021-07-15T06:17:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T06:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100470"},"modified":"2021-07-15T07:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T07:01:56","slug":"one-indian-player-tests-positive-for-covid-19-in-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100470","title":{"rendered":"One Indian player tests positive for COVID-19 in England"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/India-1.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>London:\u00a0One member of the Indian team has tested positive for COVID-19 in England and he won&#8217;t travel with the team to Durham today, reports suggested.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to ESPNCricinfo, wicketkeeper-batter Rishabh Pant has been affected and was is in isolation for the past eight days. He is\u00a0asymptomatic at this point.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-member squad had to leave for Durham as the side prepare for a three-day warm-up game against a County Championship XI team from July 20.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yes, one of the players has tested positive although he is largely asymptomatic currently. He is in quarantine at an acquaintance&#8217;s place and won&#8217;t be travelling with the team to Durham on Thursday,&#8221; BCCI told Indian news agency.<\/p>\n<p>It must be noted that India travelled to England early in June for ICC Test Championship final. They lost to New Zealand on June 23 and were out of the bio-secure bubble since then.<\/p>\n<p>Many players were seen roaming on the streets without mask and attending international sporting events like Wimbledon and Euro 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian team is due to take on England in a five-match Test series starting August 4.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/new-zealand-wins-icc-wtc-final-against-india-by-8-wickets\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> New Zealand wins ICC WTC final against India by 8 wickets<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>London:\u00a0One member of the Indian team has tested positive for COVID-19 in England and he won&#8217;t travel with the team to Durham today, reports suggested. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=100470\" title=\"One Indian player tests positive for COVID-19 in England\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100472,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100470\/revisions\/100472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}