Since Sri Lanka is scheduled to host India for a white-ball tour, the Sri Lankan players returning from the limited-overs tour of England will be heading into another bio-secure bubble straightaway after returning on Tuesday.

As reported by PTI, all cricketers will be undergoing a round of RT-PCR tests upon their arrival. With the ODI series between India and Sri Lanka starting from 13 July, which is just a week away, none of the Lankan players will go home. Instead, they will head straight into the bubble.

“The Sri Lankan team will reach Colombo today itself and enter another bubble after one round of RT PCR test. Even after completion of the tour on Sunday, the team had an RT PCR test in the UK before boarding the flight,” a Sri Lanka Cricket official told PTI.

“Since the India series is starting in a week no one is going home. It's a bubble-to-bubble transfer. However, if anyone tests positive, the usual protocol of testing and isolation would follow,” he added.

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With Virat Kohli and Co. staying in the UK after the World Test Championship (WTC) final for the upcoming five-match Test series against England slated to begin from August 4, a new Indian team was selected for the limited-overs tour of Sri Lanka.

Shikhar Dhawan has been appointed as the captain with Bhuvneshwar Kumar as his deputy. Since head coach Ravi Shastri is also with the Indian team in England, former India skipper Rahul Dravid was appointed as the coach of Men in Blue in the Island nation.

India will take on hosts Sri Lanka in a three-match ODI series scheduled to begin from 13 July followed by a three-match T20I series slated to begin from 21 July with all six matches to be played at the R Premadasa Stadium in Colombo.

(With PTI Inputs)