IND vs WI: Mayank Agarwal Added To The India ODI Squad As BCCI Confirms Seven Members Of The Indian Contingent Test Positive For COVID-19

Seven members of the Indian contingent returned positive for the COVID-19 virus on Wednesday, BCCI issued a media release.

Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Navdeep Saini (standby player) are the four players who have contracted the virus after three rounds of testing.

IND vs WI: Mayank Agarwal added to India’s ODI squad

Apart from the players, fielding coach T Dilip, security liaison officer B Lokesh and massage therapist Rajeev Kumar have also been infected with the contagious virus. All the members who tested positive for COVID-19 are isolated on a different floor in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Ahmedabad.

“Every member was also asked to undergo an RT-PCR test at home before embarking on their journey to Ahmedabad and the travel was undertaken only after testing negative,” the BCCI said in a statement.

As a result of the unpleasant event, the BCCI has included Karnataka batter Mayank Agarwal in the ODI squad.

The Indian team is currently under a quarantine period of three days for their upcoming white-ball series against the West Indies. Their quarantine period was expected to complete on Wednesday (February 2).

The team was scheduled to kick off their training session from Thursday onwards, however, uncertainty looms over their practice after the Indian team was hit with the news of COVID-19 positive.

All members from West Indies return negative for COVID-19

The West Indies team, which is coming from Barbados with a 3-2 T20I series win over England, is also put under quarantine in the same hotel where the Indian team is accommodated.

Meanwhile, Cricket West Indies confirmed that all of their members have returned negative on their arrival to India from Barbados.

“We were all negative before we left Barbados. And all negative on our arrival tests at the airport yesterday (February 1) in Ahmedabad. We are in room isolation on a separate floor to the Indian team as per the protocols,” an official from CWI told Cricbuzz.

The first ODI between India and West Indies is scheduled to take place at the Narendra Modi Stadium on February 6.

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