{"id":113052,"date":"2022-08-23T11:40:32","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/Thenews21.com\/?p=113052"},"modified":"2022-08-23T11:40:36","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T06:10:36","slug":"dravid-tests-positive-for-covid-19-not-travelling-to-dubai-for-asia-cup-for-now-bcci-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/dravid-tests-positive-for-covid-19-not-travelling-to-dubai-for-asia-cup-for-now-bcci-sources","title":{"rendered":"Dravid tests positive for COVID-19, not travelling to Dubai for Asia Cup for now: BCCI sources"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>@the_news_21<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India head coach Rahul Dravid has tested positive for COVID-19 and didn&#8217;t accompany the Rohit Sharma-led team that left for Dubai to compete in the Asia Cup, starting August 27.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>India play arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening game on August 28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Rahul Dravid has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently in isolation. We are still hopeful that he will recover soon and might join the team in due course,&#8221; a senior BCCI official told PTI on the conditions of anonymity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is understood that for the time being, assistant coach Paras Mhambrey will be in-charge of the team but a call on whether NCA head VVS Laxman will join the team in Dubai will be taken later on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t taken a call on whether VVS will be going to Dubai from Harare or not. A call will be taken accordingly and if required, he will join. Till then Paras Mhambrey will be in-charge. All other members are fit and left for UAE early in the day,&#8221; he also confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While majority of the members of the team left from Mumbai on Tuesday morning, vice-captain KL Rahul, Deepak Hooda and reserve player Axar Patel will travel from Harare, having finished their Zimbabwe assignment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@the_news_21 India head coach Rahul Dravid has tested positive for COVID-19 and didn&#8217;t accompany the Rohit Sharma-led team that left for Dubai to compete in the Asia Cup, starting August 27. India play arch-rivals Pakistan in their opening game on August 28. &#8220;Rahul Dravid has tested positive for COVID-19 and is currently in isolation. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":6793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[4791,11047,35339,49696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113052"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113053,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113052\/revisions\/113053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenews21.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}