New Delhi: India’s head coach Rahul Dravid has tested positive for Covid-19 and will join the Asia Cup squad later in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the country’s cricket board said. Dravid returned a positive result in a routine test carried out before the team’s departure for the UAE, Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Secretary Jay Shah said in a statement. “Mr Dravid is under the supervision of the BCCI medical team and has mild symptoms. “He will join the team once he returns with a negative Covid-19 report,” Shah said. India will begin their title defence with a mouth-watering August 28 clash with arch-rivals Pakistan in the six-team Twenty20 tournament.Bilateral cricket remains suspended between the two countries, but they play each other in multi-team tournaments.

Published in The Daily National Courier, August, 24 2022

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