Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting is in isolation and will miss out on the match against Rajasthan Royals on Friday.
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Delhi Capitals head coach Ricky Ponting is in isolation after one of his family members tested positive for Covid-19. The former Australia captain will, thus, miss out on the clash against Rajasthan Royals at the Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai on Friday.
His absence will mean that Delhi Capitals’ support staff Pravin Amre, James Hopes, Ajit Agarkar, Shane Watson will take charge of the proceedings. This development comes after top-order batter Tim Seifert became the latest to test positive for Covid-19 on Thursday.
Ponting, meanwhile, tested negative twice. But the management said that “in the best interest of the team, the management and medical team has decided that he will remain in isolation for five days”.
He is expected to join the franchise for their next fixture on April 28 against Kolkata Knight Riders.
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Delhi Capitals physio Patrick Farhart was the first to test positive on April 15. On the next day, Chetan had tested positive too.
Seifert, on Wednesday, became the sixth member of the Capitals contingent to test positive after Australia allrounder Mitchell Marsh, physio Farhart, sports massage therapist Chetan Kumar, team doctor Abhijit Salvi, and social media content team member Akash Mane.
Under the IPL guidelines, the participant who tests positive will have to be isolated for a minimum of seven days, and during that period, he will be tested on the sixth and seventh days.
For him to re-enter the team’s bio-secure environment, he will have to provide two consecutive negative RT-PCR tests taken 24 hours apart, full resolution of symptoms, see that there are no fresh symptoms for more than 24 hours, and that there have been no use of medications for more than 24 hours.
