{"id":19661,"date":"2022-04-22T19:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=216082"},"modified":"2022-04-22T19:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:39:50","slug":"tata-ipl-2022-delhi-capitals-coach-ricky-ponting-to-miss-the-game-against-rajasthan-royals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/ipl\/tata-ipl-2022-delhi-capitals-coach-ricky-ponting-to-miss-the-game-against-rajasthan-royals\/","title":{"rendered":"TATA IPL 2022: Delhi Capitals\u2019 coach Ricky Ponting to miss the game against Rajasthan Royals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Ponting, the head coach of the Delhi Capitals, will spend five days of quarantine after a family member tested positive for Covid-19. As a result, he will not be present at Wankhede Stadium in Mumbai for the Capitals\u2019 match against Rajasthan Royals later today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA family member of Delhi Capitals Head Coach Ricky Ponting has tested positive for COVID. The family has now been moved into an isolation facility and is being well taken care of. Ponting himself has tested negative twice subsequently. However, in the best interest of the team, the management and medical team has decided that he will remain in isolation for five days, as he was a close contact,\u201d Delhi Capitals said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 7 COVID-19 instances have been reported in DC. Tim Seifert tested positive for the illness just hours before their match versus Punjab Kings. Mitchell Marsh, who made his DC debut against Royal Challengers Bangalore a few days before Seifert, tested positive for the same. Other members of the backroom staff who have got the infection include DC\u2019s physio Patrick Farhart, Chetan Kumar, Abhijit Salvi, and Akash Mane. The positive COVID-19 cases have had no effect on the match thus far, and everything is running smoothly.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL STATEMENT:<\/p>\n<p>A family member of Delhi Capitals Head Coach Ricky Ponting has tested positive for COVID-19. The family has now been moved into an isolation facility and is being well taken care of. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FrQXjlSYRI\">pic.twitter.com\/FrQXjlSYRI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelhiCapitals\/status\/1517466924690853888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">He will, therefore, not be present at the ground for tonight\u2019s game against Rajasthan Royals. The franchise requests for Ponting and his family's privacy to be respected in the current scenario.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Delhi Capitals (@DelhiCapitals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DelhiCapitals\/status\/1517466933767315458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Ponting has been placed in quarantine for five days after a member of his family tested positive for Covid. When DC takes on the Rajasthan Royals, he will not be available for the match. Recently, two players and four members of the DC backroom staff tested positive for the infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":271,"featured_media":40325,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1052],"class_list":["post-19661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ipl","tag-ricky-pointing"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661","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\/271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}