All members of Bangladesh squad test negative; series to go ahead

Questions encompassing Bangladesh’s two-match Test series against New Zealand reduced later every one of the individuals from the visiting unforeseen returned negative tests.

”We have finished the last crown test yesterday and today the outcome came out… we all returned negative,” group chief Khaled Mahmud said on Monday (December 20).

“We can come out from here (Managed Isolation and Quarantine focus) tomorrow and start our training from the morning at the Lincoln University Ground where we will likewise get the exercise center offices. In the wake of finishing the training, we will move to our group lodging and do every one of the typical exercises,” he added.

As it turns out, After Rangana Herath, Bangladesh’s twist bowling expert, was identified Covid-19 positive, the visiting party was asked not to attempt any training meeting until December 21. The crew individuals were additionally sent once more into isolation.

The Bangladesh Cricket Board then, at that point, expressed that they should reconsider about the series assuming they need to think twice about their arrangement because of the lengthy quarantine that was forced by the New Zealand Health Ministry.

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In the interim, it is being confirmed that Herath won’t be going with the remainder of the set-up on December 21 as he is yet to get the freedom to go along with them by the wellbeing division of New Zealand. Nonetheless, an authority demanded that he will be accessible when he gets the leeway subsequent to getting an adverse outcome following his Covid-19 test.

Other than Herath, eight different individuals from the Test set-up, who thus were in separation as they were in close contact of a Covid-19 positive individual flying with them from Malaysia to New Zealand, tried negative.

As it turns out, Bangladesh partook in an open air practice meeting on December 16 in the wake of finishing their necessary quarantine, however were subsequently approached to stop their training meetings and get once again to MIQ (Managed Isolation and Quarantine). The New Zealand government would have rather not take any risk as the traveler who had tried positive was viewed as contaminated by the Omicron variation.

The initial Test is planned to be played at the Bay Oval in Tauranga, beginning on January 1. The subsequent Test will be played from January 9 at the Hagley Oval in Christchurch.

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