{"id":793,"date":"2020-11-22T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T09:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=793"},"modified":"2020-11-22T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T09:34:23","slug":"national-squad-tests-negative-for-covid-19-ahead-of-new-zealand-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=793","title":{"rendered":"National squad tests negative for COVID-19 ahead of New Zealand tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Chance-for-Babar-others-to-improve-T20I-rankings-during-Zimbabwe-series.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Lahore: The national squad, scheduled to travel on November 23, has tested for COVID-19, ARYSports reported.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The COVID-19 tests for the 55-member contingent, 35 players and 20 officials, involved were conducted on Saturday at a local hotel in Lahore.<\/p>\n<p>Note, the\u00a0squad will depart for Lincoln on November 23 where they will spend the mandatory 14-day quarantine period.<\/p>\n<p>For the first three days, players will remain isolated completely. The members will be divided\u00a0into different groups of 15 for the rest\u00a0of the quarantine period. They won&#8217;t be allowed to interact with\u00a0individuals of other groups.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s team will play three T20Is and two Tests while Shaheens will play five T20s and two four-day matches.<\/p>\n<p>Babar Azam will lead the men&#8217;s team in T20Is and Tests.\u00a0His vice-captain in Tests will be Mohammad Rizwan, while Shadab will be the vice-captain. Rohail Nazir will lead the Shaheens while his deputy will be Haider Ali.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/watch-pakistans-jersey-new-zealand-tour\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WATCH: Pakistan\u2019s jersey for New Zealand tour<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lahore: The national squad, scheduled to travel on November 23, has tested for COVID-19, ARYSports reported. The COVID-19 tests for the 55-member contingent, 35 players <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=793\" title=\"National squad tests negative for COVID-19 ahead of New Zealand tour\">[&#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\/793"}],"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=793"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}