{"id":571,"date":"2020-06-23T20:08:47","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=16861"},"modified":"2020-06-23T20:28:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T14:58:12","slug":"seven-more-pakistan-cricketers-test-positive-for-covid-19-total-reaches-10-pcb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/cricket\/seven-more-pakistan-cricketers-test-positive-for-covid-19-total-reaches-10-pcb\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven more Pakistan cricketers test positive for COVID-19, total reaches 10: PCB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"FirstEle\">\n<p>Seven more Pakistan cricketers, including Mohammad Hafeez and Wahab Riaz, have tested positive for Covid-19, said Pakistan Cricket Board on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paywall\">\n<p>This takes the total number of infected cricketers in the England-bound Pakistan cricket squad to ten. On Monday, three players tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>Kashif Bhatti, Mohammad Hasnain, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Imran Khan are the seven players of the Pakistan squad for England who tested positive on Tuesday and they\u2019ll be isolating at home.<\/p>\n<p>Team masseur Malang Ali also tested positive for the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not a great situation to be in and what it shows is these are 10 fit and young athletes\u2026if it can happen to players it can happen to anyone,\u201d Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) CEO, Wasim Khan told a media conference.<\/p>\n<p>Khan said that the players and officials would now assemble in Lahore and another round of tests would be carried out on June 25 and a revised squad would be announced the next day.<\/p>\n<p>The squad has to leave on June 28 for the series scheduled to be held next month, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a matter of concern but we shouldn\u2019t panic at this time as we have time on our hands,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the players and officials would be retested on reaching England.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan cricketers Haider Ali, Haris Rauf and Shadab Khan have tested positive for COVID-19 after being screened in Rawalpindi ahead of their tour of England next month, the country\u2019s cricket board (PCB) said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe players had shown no symptoms until they were tested in Rawalpindi on Sunday,\u201d the PCB said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>PCB said Imad Wasim and Usman Shinwari, who were also screened in Rawalpindi, tested negative for the virus.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The squad has to leave on 28 June for the England series scheduled to be held next month<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":23710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-571","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\/571","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\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}