Xtra Time Web Desk: The ongoing Pakistan Super League 2021 (PSL 2021) has been postponed with immediate effect after three more players were tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday. The total players tested positive for the dreaded virus has now seven in the ongoing PSL 2021. Following the latest development, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has decided to postpone the league with immediate effect.
“The decision was made after seven cases were reported in the competition, which had started on 20 February,” an official release from the PCB stated.
According to the statement from PCB all the three players who are from two different teams will now self-isolate themselves for 10 days.
“The three players were not part of the sides that featured in Wednesday’s HBL Pakistan Super League 6 double-header, and had been tested in the afternoon after showing symptoms,” the PCB said.
Earlier, England batsman Tom Banton had claimed that he was one of the two foreign players who had tested positive for COVID-19 in the ongoing PSL 2021 and he has been put under isolation.
PCB had announced on Tuesday that two foreign players and one member of the support staff had tested positive for the virus. On Monday, Australian leg-spinner Fawad Ahmed had tested positive for the virus.
PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan, Director – Commercial and Babar Hamid, will hold a media conference at the National Stadium later in the day to provide further updates.