Xtra Time Web Desk: The entire England touring party on Monday cleared all the three COVID-19 tests during their six day quarantine in Chennai. The England players will be out training on Monday evening while the net sessions will start from Tuesday. Joe Root and his boys will be able to have three net sessions leading up to the first test match which starts from February 5.
Ben Stokes, Jofra Archer and Rory Burns, who did not travel with the team to Sri Lanka for an earlier assignment, completed their quarantine earlier and have been training.
‘All PCR tests from yesterday’s test have returned negative results. The England party are now out of quarantine and will train for the first time as a full group at the stadium tomorrow afternoon 2pm-5pm (IST),’ read an update from the England and Wales Cricket Board spokesperson.
The England squad had flown into Chennai from Sri Lanka on Wednesday, having won the Test series 2-0 there. The four-Test series against Virat Kohli’s men is going to be a much bigger challenge for the side, which last won in India in 2012.
Team India are on a roll having beaten Australia in their own backyard twice in the last three years, most recently in January this year.