The whole contingent of the Team India, including the isolated five, and support staff have test negative for coronavirus after undergoing an RT-PCR test on Sunday. Amid an investigation into a potential breach of the biosecurity protocols after five Indian cricketers — Rohit Sharma, Prithvi Shaw, Rishabh Pant, Shubman Gill, and Navdeep Saini — had gone to a restaurant in Melbourne, the news of all the members testing negative will come as a big relief.
In a press release regarding the same, BCCI said, “Playing members of the Indian Cricket Team and support staff underwent an RT-PCR Test for Covid-19 on January 3, 2021. All tests have returned negative results”.
The Indian deputy skipper, Rohit, Shaw, Pant, Gill, and Saini grabbed a lot of eyeballs after a fan, in a series of tweets, showed them eating indoors at a restaurant in Melbourne on New Year’s Day. The fan claimed that he had paid the bill of the Indian players at the restaurant also adding that he had hugged Pant.
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However, he put out a clarification tweet the next day, saying, “Pant never hugged me it was all said in excitement we maintained social distance all thru Apologies for miscommunication.”
Clarification – Pant never hugged me it was all said in excitement we maintained social distance all thru:) Apologies for miscommunication @BCCI @CricketAus @dailytelegraph
— Navaldeep Singh (@NavalGeekSingh) January 2, 2021
The third Test of the ongoing series between Australia and India is scheduled to start on January 7 at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG). The series is currently leveled at 1-1 with India bouncing back from their defeat in Adelaide by outclassing the hosts in Melbourne.
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Stand-in skipper, Ajinkya Rahane led the team from the front in the absence of Virat Kohli. Not only was he praised for his fielding and bowling changes but also led from the front, scoring a gritty century.
