Another IPL player tests positive for COVID-19

NEW DELHI: Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) and India pacer Prasidh Krishna has become the latest player, who was part of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2021, to test positive for the novel coronavirus.

Krishna becomes the fourth player from the Knight Riders camp to test positive after Varun Chakravarthy, Sandeep Warrier and New Zealand’s wicket-keeper batsman Tim Seifert.

Krishna flew business class on a commercial airline from Ahmedabad to Bengaluru on May 5, and got a test done on May 6 after feeling uneasy. It was in Bengaluru where Krishna tested positive, but it is believed to be a mild case.

Chakravarthy and Warrier were the first two players to test positive for COVID-19 in the bubble. It later emerged that Wriddhiman Saha of the Sunrisers Hyderabad and Amit Mishra of the Delhi Capitals had also tested positive among players.

Krishna will hope to recover in time to be in a bubble with the Indian side, which is expected to leave for the UK on June 2. IPL 2021 was indefinitely postponed on May 4 after positive cases of Covid-19 cases emerged from as many as 4 franchises in Ahmedabad and Delhi.