After Mitchell Marsh, another overseas player in the Delhi Capitals contingent has tested positive for coronavirus. With this, the COVID case count in the squad has risen to 6. 

The positive result emerged after a Rapid Antigen Test was conducted on Wednesday afternoon, ahead of the match against Punjab Kings. According to reports, the player who has tested positive is New Zealand wicket-keeper batsman Tim Seifert. 

Meanwhile, all those who are scheduled to play Wednesday’s match at Mumbai’s Brabourne Stadium will be tested again and only those whose results come out negative will be allowed to play. The rest of the team and staff will be tested later in the day.  

The overseas player is now the sixth member of the Capitals squad to test positive for coronavirus after Australian allrounder Mitchell Marsh, physio Patrick Farhart, sports massage therapist Chetan Kumar, team doctor Abhijit Salvi, and social media content team member Akash Mane.

The game between Delhi and Punjab was initially scheduled to take place in Pune. However, BCCI said in a statement on Tuesday that the game has been moved to Brabourne stadium to ensure no COVID infection goes undetected in the bio-bubble.

“The Board of Control for Cricket in India on Tuesday announced a change of venue for Match No. 32 – Delhi Capital versus Punjab Kings from MCA Stadium, Pune to Brabourne – CCI scheduled on April 20th, 2022, to avoid any further incident due to any undetected case during a long-distance bus journey in a closed environment,” said the BCCI in a statement.

“The COVID positive cases are under isolation and medical observation. They will be tested on Day 6 and 7 and subject to both the tests being negative they will be re-integrated into the Delhi Capitals bio-secure bubble.”From April 16th onwards, the entire Delhi Capitals contingent has been put under a daily RT-PCR testing procedure. The 4th round of RT-PCR tests conducted on April 19th have returned negative.”