Haider Ali, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan have tested positive for Covid-19. The players had shown no symptoms until they were tested in Rawalpindi on Sunday ahead of the Pakistan men’s national cricket team’s tour to England.
The PCB medical panel is in contact with the three who have been advised to immediately go into self-isolation.
Imad Wasim and Usman Shinwari, also screened in Rawalpindi, have tested negative and, as such, will travel to Lahore on June 24.
In a gigantic hit to Pakistan group in front of their calendar travel to England, three of their players have been tried positive for the Coronavirus. Haris Rauf, Shadab Khan and Haider Ali every one of the three were a piece of the 29-part crew that should visit UK not long from now. Alongside them, Usman Shinwari and Imad Wasim experienced COVID-19 tests on Sunday in Rawalpindi as the required procedure before leaving on the visit.
They have been tried negative while the remainder of the three players have been encouraged to go into self-disconnection rapidly. Strikingly, none of them indicated any Coronavirus side effects before they stepped through the examination. In the mean time, Imad and Shinwari, having cleared the test, will currently make a trip to Lahore on June 24.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) affirmed the updates on Shadab, Rauf and Haider being tried positive for the COVID-19 in its public statement. The board’s clinical board is in contact with them and is controlling them.
“Subsequent to experiencing isolate period that specific cricketer should be tried twice inside a couple of days to decide his status. On the off chance that both of his tests turn negative, England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) will make exceptional game plans to fly him to UK where after one more testing he should go through an additional fifteen days in isolate,” he had said while addressing The News.
In the interim, the players who will free the primary stage from testing will amass in Lahore where the second period of testing will happen on June 25. The ones who will clear both the tests will just travel to Manchester on June 28 where Pakistan group will isolate and prepare in a bio-secure condition.
The other players and team officials, barring Cliffe Deacon, Shoaib Malik and Waqar Younis, underwent tests at their respective centres in Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar on Monday. Their results are expected at some stage on Tuesday, which will also be announced by the PCB through its usual channels.
Haider Ali, the Pakistan U19 batsman and one of the players to watch-out for, had been named in a 29-player squad for three Tests and three T20Is against England to be played in August-September.
Haider had an outstanding 2019-20 season, following which he earned an emerging contract for the 2020-21 season.
Haris Rauf, who made his Twenty20 International (T20I) debut against Bangladesh in January this year, has played in two seasons of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) and was one of the best performers for Melbourne Stars, in Big Bash League (BBL) season nine, with 20 wickets to his credit.
Meanwhile, Shadab Khan has been one of Pakistan’s finest leg-spinners, to come through the ranks, in the recent past. He was also the captain of the Pakistan Super League (PSL) franchise Islamabad United in the, now suspended, fifth edition of the event.