KL Rahul tests positive for COVID-19 ahead of IND vs WI series, confirms BCCI president Sourav Ganguly

KL Rahul has tested positive for COVID-19 ahead India's tour of West Indies later this week. The Team India vice-captain will miss the series after recovering from injury at the National Cricket Academy (NCA). He was recently in Germany for his surgery following the recovery.

BCCI president Sourav Ganguly informed about Rahul after the Board's Apex Council meeting. Rahul on Thursday itself had addressed the candidates, who attended the Level-3 coach certification course at National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru.

Rahul, who underwent a hernia operation in Germany recently, was rested for the ODI series against the West Indies starting Friday at Port of Spain. Ganguly also informed that a member of the Commonwealth Games-bound India women's team was also down with COVID-19. He, however, did not disclose the name of the player.

NCA head VVS Laxman shared a photo of Rahul attending a meet at the academy in Bengaluru, where he could be seen speaking to coaches who are attending a course over there.

Indian vice-captain KL Rahul addressing the candidates attending the Level 3 coaching at NCA. pic.twitter.com/n1nVj7qyxV — Johns. (@CricCrazyJohns) July 21, 2022

Laxman thanked Rahul for making time to address the candidates, he wrote: "Thank you @klrahul for addressing the candidates attending the Level-3 coach certification course at NCA. Listening to your different experiences as a player and captain will definitely help these passionate coaches to learn, improve and excel in their careers."

However, the sad news is that the profilic India opener is likely to miss the T20I West Indies series taking place after a few weeks.

India are set to face West Indies for 3 ODIs and 5 T20Is between July 22 to August 7. The last T20I matches will be played in the United States of America. After a successful IPL season on individual terms, KL Rahul missed out from the South Africa series at home, Ireland series away and England tour as well.

India's squad for 5 T20Is vs West Indies

Rohit Sharma (Captain), Ishan Kishan, KL Rahul*, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Shreyas Iyer, Dinesh Karthik, Rishabh Pant, Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Axar Patel, R Ashwin, Ravi Bishnoi, Kuldeep Yadav, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Avesh Khan, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh. (With PTI inputs)