{"id":4172,"date":"2022-08-23T12:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=239854"},"modified":"2022-08-23T12:17:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:47:04","slug":"rahul-dravid-tests-covid-19-positive-ahead-of-asia-cup-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/rahul-dravid-tests-covid-19-positive-ahead-of-asia-cup-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Rahul Dravid tests COVID \u2013 19 Positive ahead of Asia Cup 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the opening tournament opener match against Pakistan, the Indian team\u2019s head coach, Rahul Dravid, tested COVID \u2013 19 positive. Rahul Dravid did not travel to Zimbabwe for the recently concluded Zimbabwe-India 3-match ODI series. India won the series by a 3-0 margin. KL Rahul led the side against Zimbabwe. BCCI announced the news from its official Twitter handle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeam India Head Coach Rahul Dravid has tested positive for COVID-19 in a routine test conducted before the team\u2019s departure to the UAE for Asia Cup 2022.\u00a0Mr. Dravid is under the supervision of the BCCI Medical team and has mild symptoms. He will join the team once he returns with a negative COVID-19 report. The rest of the team will assemble in UAE on 23<sup>rd<\/sup> August 2022,\u201d read the statement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS \u2013 Head Coach Rahul Dravid tests positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>More details here \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T7qUP4QTQk\">https:\/\/t.co\/T7qUP4QTQk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TeamIndia?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#TeamIndia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1561964660026290176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 23, 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>Team India Head coach, Rahul Dravid, has tested COVID \u2013 19 positive ahead of Asia Cup 2022 as the team India prepares to lock horns with Pakistan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":272,"featured_media":25704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1033],"class_list":["post-4172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cricket","tag-rahul-dravid"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172","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\/272"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}