Cape Town: Sunday’s One Day International between South Africa and England in Paarl has been called off after two individuals from the Englih team tested positive for the novel coronavirus, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said.
A choice will be made on whether the last two matches of the arrangement will be played on Monday and Wednesday as planned once the aftereffects of the tests have been sanctioned.
The move follows a new round of testing after two lodging laborers in the bio-secure climate in which the two groups are remaining returned positive outcomes.
Britain had recently communicated worry over the strength of the bio-secure climate.
“We lament that we can’t play in the present ODI, however the government assistance of the players and care staff is our essential concern and while we anticipate the consequences of additional tests the clinical counsel from the two groups was that this game ought not occur,” Ashley Giles, overseeing chief, England Men’s Cricket, said in an explanation on Sunday.
“We stay in steady exchange with Cricket South Africa and will keep on working intimately with them to decide how best to push ahead.”The unsubstantiated positive outcomes take to seven the quantity of COVID-19 related episodes on the six-coordinate white-ball visit, two of which happened in the South Africa camp before the arrangement began. There have now been five in the bio-secure climate.
It would be a tremendous blow for Cricket South Africa if the remainder of the visit were to be dropped and spot into question future visits by Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Australia in the following not many months.