ENG v PAK 2020: Haider Ali, Kashif Bhatti, Imran Khan cleared to join Pakistan squad after COVID-19 tests 

The three players will finally fly across to the UK for Pakistan's three-Test, three-T20I England sojourn.

By Kashish Chadha - 06 Jul, 2020

Haider Ali, Kashif Bhatti and Imran Khan (jr) have also been cleared to join Pakistan's squad for the tour of England in Worcestershire after twice testing COVID-19 negative, confirmed Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB).  

These three players, along with masseurs Malang Ali and Mohammad Imran, will now fly across to the UK with the travelling arrangements being made by the PCB. 

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Haider, Bhatti and Imran are among the ten players who had turned out positive after the initial round of testing in Lahore. 

Six of them - Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Shadab Khan and Wahab Riaz - were then allowed to join the first batch of 20 players that had departed for England after their proven recovery. 

Only one player from the originally selected 29-man touring party, Haris Rauf, hasn't yet tested negative after contracting the virus. Haris, though, remains asymptomatic for now. 

The visitors are going through a 14-day quarantine period in Blackfinch New Road, Worcester and will then shift base to Derbyshire's The Incora County Ground on July 13. They'll play two inter-squad warm-up matches before the first Test. 

The entire three-Test and three-T20I trip, stretching into early September, will be conducting in a bio-secure bubble amid the COVID-19 pandemic. 

(Inputs from Cricbuzz)

By Kashish Chadha - 06 Jul, 2020

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