{"id":19328,"date":"2021-03-01T20:16:33","date_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=19328"},"modified":"2021-03-01T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-01T15:17:00","slug":"islamabad-quetta-match-rescheduled-after-fawad-ahmed-tests-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/19328","title":{"rendered":"Islamabad, Quetta match rescheduled after Fawad Ahmed tests positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi,<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tonight&#8217;s Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2021 match between Islamabad United and Quetta Gladiators has been rescheduled for Tuesday after Pakistani-Australian cricketer Fawad Ahmed tested positive for COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ahmed&#8217;s positive test was confirmed on Twitter by his franchise Islamabad United.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The PCB said the teammates of the positive player have been re-tested and their results have come out negative.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">According to PCB protocol, Ahmed will remain in isolation until he returns two negative results in 10 days&#8217; time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Tonight&#8217;s match was originally scheduled to take place at 7pm. It was first rescheduled for 9pm but has since been called off entirely and will now take place tomorrow.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One of our players, Fawad Ahmed tested positive for Covid and was immediately put in isolation 2 days ago. All other Islamabad United players &amp; members have tested negative &amp; have been cleared to play. <\/p>\n<p>We wish Fawad a speedy recovery.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Sherus?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Sherus<\/a> are ready to roar tonight!! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ry0l6L3akx\">https:\/\/t.co\/ry0l6L3akx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Islamabad United (@IsbUnited) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsbUnited\/status\/1366375681815420932?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">To avoid the outbreak of virus during PSL 2021, the Pakistan Cricket Board had created a bio-secure bubble and made it mandatory for every participating player to clear multiple rounds of Covid-19 testing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">However, there had been an\u00a0instance of bubble breach\u00a0last week when Peshawar Zalmi head coach Darren Sammy and captain Wahab Riaz had unknowingly met team owner Javed Afridi, who was not a part of the bubble.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The duo were quarantined briefly before being\u00a0reinstated\u00a0amid alleged threats of boycott by the franchise &#8211; something that the\u00a0PCB denies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi, Tonight&#8217;s Pakistan Super League (PSL) 2021 match between Islamabad United and Quetta Gladiators has been rescheduled for Tuesday after Pakistani-Australian cricketer Fawad Ahmed tested positive for COVID-19. Ahmed&#8217;s positive test was confirmed on Twitter by his franchise Islamabad United. The PCB said the teammates of the positive player have been re-tested and their results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":19330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19331,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions\/19331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}