{"id":18771,"date":"2021-01-06T08:37:44","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T09:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18771"},"modified":"2021-01-06T11:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T11:01:17","slug":"england-cricket-team-test-negative-in-covid-19-retests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18771","title":{"rendered":"England cricket team test negative in COVID-19 retests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every member of England&#x27;s party touring Sri Lanka for a two-Test series has been given the all-clear <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/england-cricket-team-awaiting-results-of-secondary-covid19-tests-after-moeen-ali-tests-positive\/baf1a54f-1cc0-485e-b24e-8269665c5786\" title=\"after undertaking secondary COVID-19 tests\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">after undertaking secondary COVID-19 tests<\/a>, but the drama isn&#x27;t yet over.<\/p>\n<p>They were all forced to retest after all-rounder Moeen Ali was found to be positive during the party&#x27;s first round of testing upon landing in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>And although no one tested positive &#8211; including fast bowler Chris Woakes, who had shared a car with Ali to Heathrow Airport &#8211; every one of the tourists will be made to undergo a third test tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED ARTICLE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/cricket\/england-south-africa-tour-cancelled-covid-19-australia-tour-doubt\/caa7a35d-4e70-49ac-b7a4-671683608c7f\" target=\"\" title=\"England&#x27;s tour of South Africa cancelled due to COVID-19, Australia trip in doubt\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">England&#x27;s tour of South Africa cancelled due to COVID-19, Australia trip in doubt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ali is isolating for 10 days and Woakes a week.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"a93ddf24-5974-42e0-b060-4150dfbe0d2c\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/a93ddf24-5974-42e0-b060-4150dfbe0d2c\" alt=\"\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>BBC Sport is also reporting Sri Lanka, who just lost both matches of their two-Test series against South Africa in South Africa, won&#x27;t face a 10-day quarantine period when they return home.<\/p>\n<p>Both matches of the two-Test series between Sri Lanka and England will be played at Galle, with the first set to begin on January 14 and the second on January 22.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true)\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Every member of England&#x27;s party touring Sri Lanka for a two-Test series has been given the all-clear after undertaking secondary COVID-19 tests, but the drama <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18771\" title=\"England cricket team test negative in COVID-19 retests\">[&#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\/18771"}],"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=18771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18773,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18771\/revisions\/18773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}