{"id":101063,"date":"2021-07-16T15:38:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=101063"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:58:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T15:58:15","slug":"flower-faces-sri-lanka-inquiry-over-virus-bubble-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=101063","title":{"rendered":"Flower faces Sri Lanka inquiry over virus bubble breach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colombo:\u00a0<\/span>Sri Lanka’s\u00a0cricket\u00a0board is planning disciplinary action against batting coach Grant Flower following allegations that he breached a bio-secure bubble during an England tour,\u00a0cricket\u00a0sources said Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sri Lanka’s preparations for a home series against India were disrupted when Flower, 50, tested positive for Covid-19 on his return to the national team on July 6.<\/p>\n

Three Sri Lankan players, including vice-captain Kusal Mendis, were sent home early after they left the team’s bio-secure hotel for a night out in Durham ahead of the first one-day international.<\/p>\n

Official sources said Sri Lanka\u00a0Cricket\u00a0will investigate reports that Flower also breached the Covid-19 restrictions.<\/p>\n

“An inquiry will be held after he (Flower) recovers fully,”\u00a0a board source told AFP. “There are allegations that he also breached the bio-secure bubble.”<\/p>\n

Media reports said the board was also unhappy with the performance of Flower, a former Zimbabwe Test player who is under contract until the end of the year.<\/p>\n

Sri Lanka are eighth in the Test team rankings and ninth in one-day formats and team morale is reportedly low. The players have been at loggerheads with the board over new performance-linked contracts.<\/p>\n

The board has brought in local coach Dhammika Sudarshana as a temporary replacement for Flower for three one-day games and three Twenty20 matches against India starting Sunday.<\/p>\n

The India matches were delayed by five days to July 18 following positive tests by Flower and a team’s data analyst.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colombo:\u00a0Sri Lanka’s\u00a0cricket\u00a0board is planning disciplinary action against batting coach Grant Flower following allegations that he breached a bio-secure bubble during an England tour,\u00a0cricket\u00a0sources said Thursday. […]<\/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\/101063"}],"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=101063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101065,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101063\/revisions\/101065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}