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India wicketkeeper Rishabh Pant has tested positive for Covid-19.
Pant, 23, will not travel to Durham, where the team will go in a bio-bubble before the five-match Test series with England starting on 4 August.
His manager told BBC Sport the player has been “quarantining for the past week and is asymptomatic, so things are fine”.
The India players have remained in the UK after the World Test Championship Final defeat by New Zealand last month.
They were given a 20-day break before joining back together.
The news came amid reports that the secretary of Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), Jay Shah, had sent an email to the 23-member team in the UK warning it about rising Covid-19 cases in the country.
Reports said Shah had told the players to “avoid” crowded places, and going to tennis Grand Slam Wimbledon and football’s European Championship, which recently concluded in the UK.
Pant shared pictures on social media attending the last-16…
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