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England have been operating on “a knife-edge” this summer, trying to balance biosecurity with the mental wellbeing of players, after an outbreak of Covid-19 cases forced the entire one-day international squad into isolation and again highlighted the perils facing professional sport at the moment.
In a dramatic sequence of events on Tuesday morning, England announced that three players and four members of the backroom staff from the recent 2-0 series win against Sri Lanka had tested positive for the virus at the team hotel in Bristol the previous evening; a round of PCR tests had been undertaken after two positive lateral flow results earlier that day.