Travis Head tests positive for Covid-19, to miss Sydney Test

Travis Head has tried positive for Covid-19 and will miss the New Year's Ashes Test in Sydney, Cricket Australia uncovered on Friday (December 31). The board has added Mitchell Marsh, Nic Maddinson and Josh Inglis to the Australian crew as extra cover. Head returned a positive outcome following a routine PCR test. He is asymptomatic and will stay in segregation with his accomplice in Melbourne according to Victorian Health and Government guideline, consequently managing him out of the fourth Test of the Ashes series that Australia have as of now secured after successes in Brisbane, Adelaide and Melbourne. Head's is the most recent in a line of positive cases arising out of Australia. Recently, ICC match official David Boon and England lead trainer Chris Silverwood were moved into detachment. The count of cases in the England voyaging landmass, which incorporates groups of players and care staff, remains at seven. In the mean time, a Big Bash League apparatus between Melbourne Stars and the Perth Scorchers likewise must be deferred in Melbourne in view of a positive case in the Stars' camp while Australia skipper Pat Cummins needed to miss the Day-Night Test in Adelaide later he was recognized as a nearby contact of an individual that thusly tried positive. Head, who Cricket Australia expectation will return for the series-finishing fifth Test in Hobart, has been in fine structure since being restored as the group's No.5 toward the beginning of the series. He started the series with a rankling 152 at The Gabba prior to adding another 50 years in Adelaide for a series count of 248 runs from three Tests at 62, second just to Joe Root's 253. Usman Khawaja, who was in dispute for the center request job before it went to Head, is probably going to include in Sydney.