A player of the Indian cricket team in England has tested positive for Covid -19 virus. The player who tested positive will not be travelling to Durham, where the Indian team is scheduled to assemble on Thursday afternoon and prepare for a three-day warm-up game against a County Championship XI team from July 20.

Indian cricketers were on a three-week break post the World Test Championship (WTC) final loss against New Zealand.

Jay Shah had warned the cricketers to not go out as rhe Delta variant was rampant. Players were spotted at Wimbledon, Euro. In his letter, Jay Shah had also asked the players to not go out because vaccination does not provide immunity.

Last week before the first ODI against Pakistan, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) confirmed that seven members of the team including three players and four staff members tested positive for Covid-19.

The development forced an overhaul of the England ODI squad, with Ben Stokes being appointed the captain of the team.

A second-string England clean-swept Pakistan 3-0 in the ODI series, but the question of how the virus breached the bubble was left answered.

In his statement, ECB chief executive Tom Harrison mentioned the Delta variant of the virus without revealing if the squad members were affected by it.

“We have been mindful that the emergence of the Delta variant, along with our move away from the stringent enforcement of biosecure environments, could increase the chances of an outbreak. We made a strategic choice to try to adapt protocols, in order to support the overall wellbeing of our players and management staff who have spent much of the last 14 months living in very restricted conditions,” Harrison had said.