New Australia cricket trainer Andrew McDonald has tried positive for Covid and was not on the plane Wednesday as the country’s Twenty20I crew flew out to Sri Lanka.
The 40-year-old, who supplanted Justin Langer when he quit recently and was break mentor on an effective visit through Pakistan, will miss essentially the initial seven day stretch of Australia’s first visit to Sri Lanka in quite a while.
McDonald tried positive on Tuesday and is to stay in segregation in Melbourne for seven days, Cricket Australia said.
It implies he will miss the opening T20I match in Colombo on June 7, yet could be cleared to venture out to the second a day after the fact.
Collaborator mentor Michael Di Venuto will direct the group in McDonald’s nonappearance.
Australia’s visit to Sri Lanka, containing three T20 internationals, five one-day internationals and two Tests, has proactively been hit by worries about security given the new political tumult in the country.
Sri Lanka’s import-subordinate economy has been pounded by a basic unfamiliar money deficiency, prompting a very long time of intense deficiencies of food, prescriptions and different fundamentals.
Long stretches of fights outside the president’s seafront office have requested his renunciation over government fumble of the emergency.
Players in the ODI and Test crews will travel to Sri Lanka later.
Australia will investigate private cabin group on the visit, with three new partner mentors, another physiotherapist and another clinician ready.
New Zealand symbol Daniel Vettori will begin his residency as one of the full-time aide mentors before the first of two Tests starts in Galle on 29 June.
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