England’s final Test this summer still set to go ahead as ALL India players test negative for Covid

England’s closing Check seemed to have survived a late scare on Thursday night time even while India cancelled their teaching session at Aged Trafford soon after a fourth member of their backroom team analyzed beneficial for Covid.

India players ended up purchased to remain in their rooms at Manchester’s Radisson Hotel and undertook a contemporary spherical of PCR checks soon after physio Yogesh Parmar joined coach Ravi Shastri, bowling coach Bharat Arun and fielding coach R Sridhar in tests beneficial.

But at just soon after 6pm on Thursday it emerged checks on all the players ended up detrimental and the game should really go in advance even while there is explained to even now be issue in the India camp. 

Earlier in disaster talks on Thursday the India board suggested cancelling the Check to guard the Indian Premier League that resumes next week but it was built apparent by ECB they would consider that a forfeiture.

That would not only have still left the series all square at two-two devoid of players even environment foot on the Aged Trafford outfield but the BCCI would have been liable for losses up to £30million in broadcasting profits and gate receipts from the full-residences anticipated at Aged Trafford’s 21,500 potential floor.

Relations among the boards are strained now, with ECB even now offended around India’s determination final week to flout Covid guidelines by attending a e-book start in London, as unveiled by Sportsmail, two times right before an Oval Check the place they took a two-one lead in the series with a 157-run gain. 

The India players and coaches, such as Shastri and captain Virat Kohli, blended freely with guests at the packed function at the St James Court docket Hotel in Victoria.

A single visitor at the occasion told Sportsmail: ‘It was horrid. No-just one wore masks, aside from waiting around team. It still left me feeling really awkward. Absolutely everyone went around to Shastri to fulfill him.’

That flouting of Covid guidelines would have experienced really serious repercussions experienced the virus rife in India’s backroom team unfold to the players but, very, it has not.

Parmar’s beneficial end result arrived soon after a spherical of tests on Wednesday evening and the significant get worried for India was that he experienced stepped up from assistant to be the team’s principal physio soon after lead physio Nitin Patel was deemed a close contact of Shastri. 

That intended Parmar experienced treated a quantity of players such as Rohit Sharma, Cheteshwar Pujara Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami
and Ishant Sharma both all through the Oval Check and the create-up to this just one.

And the ECB ended up concerned about speculation suggestion India would prioritise the resumption of the IPL in the United Arab Emirates later on this thirty day period rather than this Check. That would have still left them making an attempt to make certain as quite a few of their players stayed healthy by avoiding contact in Manchester till they depart for Dubai next week.

Instead all their players and England ones travelling to the IPL on a charter flight on Wednesday will have to have further PCR checks right before they are permitted to fly. For now the exhibit just about goes on and England will have a likelihood to square the 5-match series.