CWG 2022: INDW team member Covid positive

A member of the India Women’s cricket team tested positive for Coronavirus prior to boarding the flight for the Commonwealth Games 2022 in the UK. BCCI president Sourav Ganguly affirmed the news after the apex council meeting of the board on Thursday.

Women’s T20I cricket is important for CWG 2022 set to be held in Birmingham this year where India will begin their campaign on July 29 when they take on world champion Australia.

Women’s cricket is making its CWG debut with all the matches to be played at Edgbaston beginning July 29. The gold and bronze medal matches will be held on August 7.

A total of eight teams are partaking in CWG and divided into two groups of four each. India, Australia, Barbados and Pakistan are in Group A while Sri Lanka, England, New Zealand and South Africa have been placed in Group B.

In the lead up to the quadrennial games, India visited Sri Lanka for six white-ball matches. They first won a three-game T20I series 2-1 before completing a 3-0 clean victory of the ODI series that followed.

Team India update!

One member of the Indian cricket team (scheduled to fly for #CWG2022) has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been isolated.#B2022 pic.twitter.com/oDiLXn6zCC

— Women’s CricZone (@WomensCricZone) July 21, 2022

In the meantime, India men’s group batter KL Rahul, who was going through rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru, has also tested positive for Coronavirus. Rahul was named in India’s T20I crew (liable to full readiness) for the West Indies series yet is presently doubtful.

Rahul, who has been down and out since IPL 2022, recently went through a medical procedure for hernia in Germany as of late subsequent to missing the T20I series against South Africa at home because of injury.

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India’s West Indies visit begins from Friday with a three-match ODI series.

India ladies team for CWG 2022: Harmanpreet Kaur (chief), Smriti Mandhana (bad habit commander), Shafali Verma, S. Meghana, Taniyaa Sapna Bhatia (wk), Yastika Bhatia (wk), Deepti Sharma, Rajeshwari Gayakwad, Pooja Vastrakar, Meghna Singh, Renuka Thakur, Jemimah Rodrigues, Radha Yadav, Harleen Deol, Sneh Rana.