Covid Scare In Sri Lanka Camp As Six Avid gamers Phase Of Ladies’s Global Cup Qualifiers Check Sure For Virus | Cricket Information

Six gamers who have been a part of the Sri Lanka squad for the Ladies’s Global Cup qualifiers in Zimbabwe have examined sure for Covid-19, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) mentioned on Sunday. It wasn’t in an instant identified whether or not the sure exams have been for the newly-identified Omicron variant of the virus. The improvement got here only a day after the World Cricket Council (ICC) referred to as off the qualifiers following the emergence of the extremely infectious Omicron variant. The brand new variant has ended in go back and forth curbs being installed position by way of many nations the world over.

“The crew remains to be in Zimbabwe, and we are speaking with the ICC to take a look at and get them again to Sri Lanka once conceivable,” SLC CEO Ashley de Silva used to be quoted as announcing by way of ESPNcricinfo.

“The gamers who’ve examined sure should keep there till they take a look at adverse. There’s a physician touring with the crew who will keep at the back of with them,” he added.

Previous on Saturday, ICC had mentioned that the slots for the Global Cup could be determined at the foundation of crew scores following the abandonment of the qualifiers.

“The event, scheduled to be performed until 5 December, would have determined the overall 3 spots for the ICC Ladies’s Global Cup in New Zealand subsequent 12 months in addition to the rest two berths within the subsequent cycle of the ICC Ladies’s Championship,” ICC mentioned in a press launched.

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“Then again, with the emergence of the newest Covid-19 variant in South Africa and the creation of go back and forth restrictions from quite a few African nations, together with the host nation Zimbabwe, the ICC has determined to name off the development, with the qualification slots determined as in keeping with crew scores, in step with the event’s enjoying stipulations,” it added.

“Therefore, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the West Indies will now development to the ICC Ladies’s Cricket Global Cup in New Zealand, with Sri Lanka and Eire occupying the opposite slots for the 2022-25 cycle of the ICC Ladies’s Championship.”