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India vs England 5th Test: Covid-19 positive Ravi Shastri, Arun, Sridhar to miss final match at Manchester

Team India's head coach Ravi Shastri is set to miss the fifth and final Test against England in Manchester as he will remain in isolation for 14 days.

Ravi Shastri

London, September 6: Team India's head coach Ravi Shastri is set to miss the fifth and final Test against England in Manchester as he will remain in isolation for 14 days and can come out only after returning two negative results. In fact, both Bharat Arun, bowling coach, and fielding coach R Sridhar too will miss attending the final Test.

The Manchester Test is set to be played from September 10 to 14 at Old Trafford. Sources in the Indian team confirmed that Shastri and two others will remain in isolation for 14 days and needed two negative tests before he can come out of isolation. On Monday, their RTPC-R tests too turned positive.

"Unfortunately, Shastri will remain in isolation for 14 days and will have to return two negative tests before he can come out of isolation. He will not be a part of the Indian dressing room till then," the source told ANI.

Just half an hour before the start of play on Day 4 of the 4th Test at the Oval, the BCCI said its medical team had isolated Ravi Shastri, head coach, Bharat Arun, bowling coach, R Sridhar, fielding coach, and Nitin Patel, physiotherapist, as a precautionary measure after Shastri's lateral flow test returned positive on Saturday evening.

The remaining members of the Team India contingent underwent two Lateral Flow Tests -- one on Saturday night and another on Sunday morning. The members upon returning negative COVID reports were allowed to proceed for Day 4 of the ongoing fourth Test at The Oval against England.

"Of course, we are missing Ravi bhai massively. Ravi bhai, Bharat Arun, and R Sridhar have been an extremely important part of this setup, they have done well in the past five-six years and they have played a major role in the team doing well.

This is what it is, they are not here. In the morning, it was a bit of a distraction, we had a word and we decided we need to focus on the cricket. We are here for this series, and I think the boys did well to not get distracted.

"There was a potential we could have been distracted, the credit needs to go to the boys for the way they handled themselves," said Rathour during a virtual press conference on Sunday.

"Ravi bhai felt ill on Saturday night around 8 PM. He was having a little bit of discomfort yesterday, the medical team decided to go for a lateral flow test and it came out positive and that is when we all found that he is positive. The close
contacts were identified and isolated so we will wait for the medical team to tell us when they can join back," he added.

Story first published: Monday, September 6, 2021, 15:59 [IST]
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