{"id":1037,"date":"2020-07-13T17:14:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T11:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=23626"},"modified":"2020-07-14T17:15:35","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T11:45:35","slug":"former-india-cricketer-chetan-chauhan-tests-positive-for-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/former-india-cricketer-chetan-chauhan-tests-positive-for-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Former India cricketer Chetan Chauhan tests positive for Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former India cricketer Chetan Chauhan has tested positive for Covid-19, it has emerged. Chetan Chauhan was tested for Covid-19 on Friday and the result turned out to be positive.<\/p>\n<p>Chauhan\u2019s family members are also going to undergo tests for Covid-19, they have been put under home quarantine for the moment. Chauhan has been admitted in the Sanjay Gandhi PGI hospital in Lucknow.<\/p>\n<p>Chauhan is the third former international cricketer who has contracted the virus after ex-Pakistan captain Shahid Afridi and Scotland\u2019s Majid Haq, both of whom have recovered from the disease since their diagnosis.<\/p>\n<p>10 players of the Pakistan cricket team had also tested positive for Covid-19 before their departure for the tour of England last month.<\/p>\n<p>Former India cricketer and current commentator took to Instagram to react to the news and wish him a speedy recovery. He further went on to wish Amitabh Bachan, as he, too had tested positive for Coronavirus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Chetan Chauhan ji is also tested positive for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID%E3%83%BC19?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID\u30fc19<\/a>. Sending best wishes in his direction too\u2026get well soon, sir. Tough night this one\u2026Big B and Chetan Ji.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cricketaakash\/status\/1282009055314227200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 11, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Chetan Chauhan played 40 Tests and 7 ODIs for India, scoring 2084 runs at an average of 31.57 in red-ball cricket while in the 50-overs format he managed 153 runs at 21.85.<\/p>\n<p>Chetan Chauhan played Ranji Trophy for Maharashtra and Delhi and was honoured with the Arjuna Award in 1981.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former India cricketer has been admitted to the Sanjay Gandhi PGI Hospital in Lucknow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":24169,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}