6 players to join Pakistan team after negative COVID-19 test

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6 players to join Pakistan team after negative COVID-19 test | Pakistan tour of England looking brighter as players test negative for COVID-19

Six cricketers from the Pakistan cricket team will join the team in Worcester after testing negative for COVID-19 the second time in three days.

Shadab Khan, Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Fakhar Zaman, Mohammad Hasnain and Mohammad Rizwan tested negative on 29th June. They were earlier tested negative on 26th June.

Pakistan’s 20-member squad have already reached in England and started training. The six players will start training after they test negative for the coronavirus as per the ECB regulations.

Hafeez and Riaz tested negative for COVID-19 after they took up a test privately, but to get the nod for travelling to England, the experienced duo had to get tested by the PCB-authorised testing team. They tested negative for the second time.

6 players to join Pakistan team after negative COVID-19 test
Mohammad Hafeez is one of the players to return a negative COVID-19 test

The Pakistan team were badly hit as 10 members of the initial squad tested positive for the virus. They had to rework on their squad and added Rohail Nazir and Musa Khan to leave for England in the first batch. Out of the 10 members that were detected with COVID-19, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Imran Khan and Kashif Bhatti are yet to be tested negative.

The first batch will later shift to Derbyshire’s The Incora County Ground on July 13. There will be two internal four-day warmup matches before the first Test.

The Pakistan cricket team will play 3 Tests and 3 T20Is against England.

Written by Sarthak Karkhanis. Follow Sarthak on Twitter today.

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