Kovid plague again in the Under-19 World Cup camp. Kovid affected 9 players in the Canadian team. With this, two upcoming matches of Canada have been canceled. The 13/14 play-off against Scotland on Saturday and the 15/16 play-off against Uganda on Sunday have been postponed. With 9 players, Kovid is positive and Canada does not have 11 players on the field. That is why it was decided to cancel the match. (Canada COVID world cup)
Meanwhile, five members of the Indian Under-19 team, including captain Yash Dhul, were Kovid negative. After coming out of the isolation, they have qualified for the team selection for the quarter-finals against Bangladesh tomorrow. Nishant Sindhu Kovid, who led the team in two matches in the absence of Yash Dhool, was positive while five players were negative. Left-arm spinner Aneeshwar Gautam replaced Sindhu in the squad.
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In the RTPCR test ahead of the match against Ireland, Kovil found that Dhul, vice-captain Sheikh Rashid, Siddharth Yadav, Aradhya Yadav, Manav Prakash and Vasu Watts were all positive. With the exception of Vasu, Kovid was negative.
The quarter-finals began on January 26. Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka in the first match while Afghanistan defeated Sri Lanka in yesterday’s match. The Pakistan-Australia match is currently underway.
In the last group match, India defeated Uganda by a huge margin of 326 runs. Batting first, India scored 405 for 5 in the allotted 50 overs. In reply, Uganda lost by just 79 runs. Raj Bawa and Ankakrish Raghuvanshi scored centuries for India. Bawa hit 162 off 108 balls with 14 fours and 8 sixes while Raghuvanshi hit 144 off 120 balls with 22 fours and 4 sixes. In bowling, captain Nishant Sindhu took 4 wickets.
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