Pakistan and England players test negative for COVID-19, confirms ECB

Pakistan’s 31-member touring party are currently using Worcestershire's New Road as their training base while being in a two-week quarantine.

Pakistan players tested COVID-19 negative after arriving in England (Source: @babarazam258/Twitter)In a good news for the cricket fans, Pakistan and England squads passed their latest COVID-19 tests with flying colours.

All 20 players and 11 support staff personnel in the Pakistan squad have tested negative for the novel Coronavirus since arriving on Sunday, the England and Wales Cricket Board confirmed on Tuesday (June 30).

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Pakistan’s 31-member touring party are currently using Worcestershire's New Road as their training base while being in the mandatory 14-day isolation period. They will play three Tests and equal number of T20Is against England in August and September.

All of England’s players and management also returned negative in their third round of COVID-19 tests. They are currently in Southampton preparing for the Test series opener against West Indies, scheduled to start on July 8.  

Meanwhile, six Pakistan cricketers namely Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Rizwan, Shadab Khan and Wahab Riaz tested COVID-19 negative for the second time in three days and will now join Pakistan's squad for the tour of England.

PCB confirmed that the players were re-tested on Monday following a first negative test on June 26. These six players are part of the list of ten Pakistani cricketers that were declared positive after the first round of testing earlier last week.

(Inputs from Associated Press)

 

 
 

By Salman Anjum - 01 Jul, 2020

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