Friday, 28 January 2022

Two Plate Under-19 World Cup matches cancelled after nine Covid-19 cases in Canada squad

 


Nine Covid-19 cases in the Canada Under-19 camp has finished their World Cup crusade in the Caribbean, with their leftover two Plate games now dropped. Canada were booked to play the matches on Saturday and Sunday, however their tainted players will currently go into separation.

Canada were planned to play two games in the Plate stage end of the season games to decide positions 13 to 16 in the opposition. With their game against Scotland on Saturday now dropped, Scotland will advance to the thirteenth/fourteenth season finisher against the victor of Uganda versus PNG.

Canada's other game - the fifteenth/sixteenth season finisher against the failure of Uganda versus PNG on Sunday - additionally stands dropped.

""We are amazingly frustrated to need to drop two ICC U19 Men's Cricket World Cup games because of COVID-19 at this phase of the occasion. We were hoping to see a few positive cases all through the occasion and until this point in time, these have been overseen as per our biosafety plan without affecting on installations," Chris Tetley, ICC head of occasions, said in a media discharge. "Notwithstanding, with such countless players from the Canadian group testing positive, it won't be imaginable to organize these games.

"The players are presently holing up and will get full help from the occasion clinical group under the direction of the Bio-Safety Advisory Group."

According to the competition's playing conditions, players who test positive at the opposition are relied upon to serve somewhere around seven days of isolation. Canada's positive cases are the fifth occasion of players testing positive at the World Cup. Four Zimbabwe players had first tried positive before the competition had begun, trailed by five cases in the India crew - who have all recuperated for the knockouts - and afterward two players tried positive for West Indies, before another India player tried positive on Friday.

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