The Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday announced a two-member independent fact-finding panel, comprising of top medical experts to investigate the causes behind the bio-secure bubble breaches. File photo
KARACHI: Three days after the shambolic postponement of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL)’s sixth edition following seven Covid-19 positive cases surfacing, the Pakistan Cricket Board on Sunday announced a two-member independent fact-finding panel, comprising of top medical experts to investigate the causes behind the bio-secure bubble breaches.
The panel which includes infectious disease experts Dr Syed Faisal Mahmood of Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi and Dr Salma Muhammad Abbas from the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore is being tasked to submit its findings and recommendations directly to the PCB chairman Ehsan Mani by end of March.
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HBL PSL 6 postponed due to COVID-19
March 4, 2021
KARACHI, Pakistan: The Sixth Edition of the HBL Pakistan Super League (PSL) has been postponed followed the emergence of multiple Coronavirus Cases.
With three more COVID-19 Cases, the tally of infections had reached seven; therefore, the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) decided to postpone the ongoing HBL PSL 6.
Initially, Islamabad United’s Fawad Ahmed was tested positive and then United’s Lewis Gregory and Quetta Gladiators’ Tom Banton also turned out to be infected with the virus.
The PCB said that the three players were not part of the sides that featured in Wednesday’s both T20s and had been tested in the afternoon after showing symptoms.
KARACHI: The HBL Pakistan Super League 6 was indefinitely postponed on Thursday after three more players reported positive for coronavirus (Covid-19), taking the toll of affected cases to seven so far in the franchise-based T20 league with further casualties likely to emerge as the tests are carried out.
The latest victims of the virus are from the teams of Islamabad United and Lahore Qalandars who were due to play in Thursday’s evening game. Pakistan players Hasan Ali and Hussain Talat added to the woes of Islamabad who had already Fawad Ahmed the first case to emerge and Lewis Gregory testing positive, while Lahore’s overseas cricketer Tom Abell who had yet to make his PSL debut was also put in quarantine following the results of the PCR tests.