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The wicketkeeper-batter is in quarantine and will not travel with the team to Durham on Thursday

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Rishabh Pant is in quarantine, according to a BCCI source, and is asymptomatic

Rishabh Pant, who is part of India's touring party in England, has tested positive for Covid-19. He will not travel with the team to Durham as it reassembles ahead of next month's Test series against England.

A BCCI source confirmed that Pant had tested positive and had been in isolation for the past eight days. He is, according to the source, asymptomatic at this point. "He is in quarantine at an acquaintance's place and won't be travelling with the team to Durham on Thursday," the source said without divulging when the 23-year-old would join the squad.

"Yes, one player has tested positive but he has been in isolation for the last eight days. He was not staying in any hotel with the team, so no other player has been affected," BCCI vice-president Rajiv Shukla told PTI. "As of now no other player has tested positive. Also you must be aware our secretary Jay Shah has written a letter to all players to maintain protocols."

[News agency ANI, meanwhile, has reported that two players had tested positive - one who has subsequently returned a negative test and one whose ten-day isolation period ends on Sunday. It did not name either player.]

The development came close on the heels of Shah sending an email to the Indian contingent, warning it about the rising cases of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom. The players were given a break after the World Test Championship final against New Zealand, which the team lost last month.

It is understood that Pant has been afflicted by the Delta variant, which has led to rising number of cases in England. He was seen attending a Euro 2020 football match last month and had even posted pictures on his social media accounts.

Shah, in his letter, told the players to "avoid" crowded places as Covishield, the vaccine that has been administered to the players and other members of the team, only provides protection, not full immunity against the virus.

In fact, Shah's letter had specifically stated that players should avoid going to Wimbledon and the Euros, both of which recently concluded in the UK.

The Indian team is due to take on England in a five-match Test series starting August 4. It will play a practice game starting July 20 as a build-up to the high-intensity series. The India-England showdown marks the beginning of the second cycle of the World Test Championship.

Recently, the England team too was hit by the virus and was forced to field a second-string side for its limited-overs series against Pakistan.

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After Rishabh Pant, one member of India's support staff tests positive for Covid-19
Bowling coach B Arun, Wriddhiman Saha and Abhimanyu Easwaran identified as his close contacts, and asked to quarantine in London for ten days

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The rest of the contingent is expected to travel to Durham for a tour game

After Rishabh Pant, four more members of the Indian contingent in England have been forced to quarantine for 10 days in London. This follows one of the support staff - training assistant/net bowler Dayanand Garani - returning a positive Covid-19 test on July 14. Apart from Garani, those in quarantine include the bowling coach B Arun, wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha and reserve opener Abhimanyu Easwaran, who were identified as his close contacts.

The development comes as a big setback for India's preparations for the five-Test series in England, which were already affected when Pant returned a positive test on July 8. In accordance with the protocols laid down by Public Health England, all those deemed to be in close contact with the person/s affected needed to be traced and isolated for ten days. It is believed that Arun, who is traveling with his family, Saha and Easwaran (both travelling alone), have all cleared the fresh round of tests conducted on Thursday.

A BCCI release on Thursday evening said that Pant has not been staying at the team hotel, which suggests he is unlikely to have affected any other India players, and that he is "on his way to recovery". Pant will be able to join the rest of the India squad after returning two negative RT-PCR tests.

The same rule applies for the four others who are currently in quarantine.

The BCCI release also said "to mitigate any further risks", the Indian contingent will be administered lateral flow tests every day.

It is understood that not all members of the Indian squad were aware of Pant testing positive. Even BCCI secretary Jay Shah, who sent an email to all members of the Indian contingent on July 13 asking them to exercise all possible Covid-19 precautions, did not mention Pant's positive result in that note, seen by ESPNcricinfo. In it, Shah stressed that while the Indian contingent had received the second dose of the Covid-19 vaccine recently, that did not "guarantee total immunity or resistance against the dreaded virus".

While the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Monday that the United Kingdom would be rolling back most of its Covid-19 restrictions from July 19, he cautioned that the Delta variant, which originated from India, was transmitting fast and accounts for virtually all the cases recently in the country.

Shah too pointed to how the new Covid-19 variant had been "spreading rapidly", and "we are not out of danger zone" yet. Citing the two bilateral series that were affected recently - the England vs Pakistan series and the Sri Lanka vs India series - because of the rising numbers, Shah wrote, "It is advisable the places of mass congregation, crowded shopping malls/stores and eateries and watering holes be avoided by you in the best interest of everyone."

On Thursday, the Indian contingent, which had dispersed the day after the World Test Championship final defeat to New Zealand, reassembled in London to travel to Durham, where it will spend the next two weeks getting ready for the first of five Tests, which starts at Trent Bridge on August 4. The Indians are scheduled to play a three-day tour game from July 20 at Chester-le-Street against a select county team. That match, Durham said on Wednesday in an official statement, would be "strictly" behind closed doors.

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Who will keep wickets in India's warm-up game before the England Tests?

In case Rishabh Pant fails to be fit for the three-day warm-up match against a select county eleven, starting from July 20 in Durham, it is likely that KL Rahul will end up keeping wicket.

The Indians have travelled to the UK with two glovemen in Pant and Saha. As per protocol, Pant will come out of isolation around July 18, which is 10 days after he first tested positive. Saha is ruled out because he has to stay in quarantine, in London, until July 24.

That leaves only Rahul, who has kept wicket for India in white-ball cricket. Rahul will also be looked as a potential opener after Shubman Gill picked an injury to the lower part of his left leg immediately after the World Test Championship final.

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