Dhawan, Iyer, Gaikwad among seven Covid-19 positive cases in India camp

Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Navdeep Saini (backup player) have tried positive for Covid-19 in front of India's white-ball series against West Indies. Mayank Agarwal, thus, has been added to the ODI crew. The first of the three ODIs is booked to begin on Sunday (February 6) at the Narendra Modi Stadium in Ahmedabad.

Confirming a previous report by Cricket, the BCCI said that an aggregate of seven individuals from the Indian unexpected tried positive, including T Dilip (Fielding Coach), B Lokesh (Security Liaison Officer) and Rajeev Kumar (Massage Therapist) after three rounds of testing.

Every one of the people who have tried positive have been moved to an alternate floor in the inn and are in disengagement.

The Indian group is right now in isolation in Ahmedabad in anticipation of the six-match white-ball series against West Indies. "Each part was likewise approached to go through a RT-PCR test at home prior to leaving on their excursion to Ahmedabad and the movement was embraced solely after testing negative," the BCCI explained.

The Indian group has been remaining in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in the city since Monday. The group was to go through three-day quarantine before the training meetings start off. The quarantine period entered today third day (Wednesday, February 2) and the group would have begun rehearsing from tomorrow, yet there is equivocalness now assuming that the training would for sure beginning as booked.

The West Indies group, which arrived at Ahmedabad on Wednesday morning, is likewise set up in similar inn as India, as are the match authorities.

Mayank's expansion to the crew in any case, India have accompanied an enormous unexpected (of around 26 individuals, including net bowlers) and there is no impending danger to the series in general.

In the interim, a Cricket West Indies (CWI) official has affirmed that there are no certain cases in the meeting camp. "We were all negative before we left Barbados. And all negative on our appearance tests at the air terminal yesterday in Ahmedabad. We are in room confinement on a different floor to the Indian group according to the conventions," the highest level authority told Cricket.