Cricket Canada to fly Under-19 team back home after COVID-19 cases

Cricket Canada (CC) has said it is worried for the wellbeing and prosperity of their Under 19 World Cup crew which has been shaken by a few positive Covid-19 cases and is trapped in the Caribbean. "Tragically these youngsters need to go through this sort of a test in their young profession. We are centered around getting these players back home securely and rapidly," CC president Rashpal Bajwa told Cricbuzz on Saturday (January 29). The International Cricket Council (ICC) on Friday unveiled that nine of the 15 individuals in the Canada crew returned positive tests finishing the group's mission. The group would not be able to handle a XI in their Plate Group matches which have been dropped. The players, whose names the ICC wouldn't reveal, are in confinement in Trinidad. They will have their testing done in a few days and afterward the CC intends to fly them back home. Bajwa said, "It's an extremely sad occurrence that the majority of our players tried positive however that is the world we are living in with this pandemic." Afterward, the CC put out an assertion saying, "We have been in direct contact with the group director, and have been completely guaranteed that the impacted players are generally asymptomatic. They are generally now detaching at the inn in full consistence with the ICC's set up conventions. They will get full help from the occasion clinical group under the direction of the ICC's Bio-Safety Advisory Group." This is the subsequent significant occasion of Covid-19 infection influencing the title. Recently, six Indian players had tried positive despite the fact that there was no significant effect on their possibilities in the competition. The Yash Dhull-drove side actually proceeded to top Group B and will presently play the Super League quarter-last against Bangladesh in Antigua on January 29 (Saturday). Canada's Plate set up to contend with Scotland was expected on Saturday. Because of the scratch-offs, Scotland have advanced to the thirteenth/fourteenth play-off. The fifteenth/sixteenth end of season game, which would have included Canada against one or the other Uganda or PNG, will likewise not happen. According to the competition rules, places 11 to 16 are chosen in view of the Plate Championship results. Canada would get back without a solitary success. They lost each of the three Group A fundamental round games in St Kitt. They then, at that point, moved to Trinidad for the end of the season games in which they previously lost to Ireland before Covid stopped their mission. Cancelled matches January 29: Canada v Scotland, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad and Tobago January 30: 15th/16 Play-Off, Brian Lara Cricket Academy, Trinidad and Tobago