Misbah Ali

A member of the Indian cricket Team’s support staff tested positive for the coronavirus in Manchester on September 9, 2021, ahead of the fifth and final Test against England, leading to the cancellation of Team India’s training session for the afternoon.

Now, the members will undergo the testing before they can take the field.

Sources confirmed the development to the media agency and said, “Yes, the team will not train and will undergo tests now that a support staff member has tested positive for COVID-19.”

This after the team’s head coach Ravi Shastri, Bowling Coach Bharat Arun, and Fielding coach R Sridhar tested positive for coronavirus during the fourth test.

Currently, they are in isolation and can only come out after testing negative twice.

On September 5, 2021, just half an hour before the start of the match on Day 4 of the fourth Test, the BCCI informed that its medical team had isolated Shastri, Arun, Sridhar, and physio Nitin Patel as a precautionary measure after Shastri’s lateral flow test returned positive on the evening of September 4, 2021.

The rest of the members of the Indian Cricket Team had undergone two Lateral Flow Tests—one on the night of September 4, 2021, and another on the morning of September 5, 2021.

After testing negative for COVID-19, the members were allowed to proceed for Day 4 of the fourth Test at The Oval against England.

Meanwhile, having registered an energetic 157-run win in the fourth Test against the poms, Virat Kohli and the men in blue would now have their eyes firmly set on clinching the final Test at Manchester to achieve a comprehensive 3-1 series win over England.