Mashrafe Mortaza

CSA has conducted over 100 tests throughout the country on affiliate staff and some of the contracted professional players, including the franchise training squads

The skipper had gone for a coronavirus Test last week, and now his reports have come back as positive, ESPNCricinfo reported

Chasing a moderate target of 265 runs, opener Rohit Sharma and captain Virat Kohli had an unbeaten 178-run stand for the 2nd wicket and chased down the score in 40.1 overs at Edgbaston in Birmingham

Meanwhile, batsman Mahmudullah and pacer Mustafizur Rahman have been axed from the Test contract list and handed only a partial contract for white-ball cricket.

Mashrafe stepped down as ODI captain this week after the third and final ODI of a three-match series against Zimbabwe

The players are likely to meet with Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) officials later on Wednesday, says reports

Pakistan are not technically out of the competition yet but would need a freakishly big win against already eliminated Bangladesh to overtake New Zealand cricket team on run rate.

Mortaza also heaped praises on his bowlers who kept chipping in with regular breakthroughs and never allowed the Proteas batsmen to flourish

Bangladesh performed as a batting unit to hunt down an imposing 319-run target set by minnows Scotland in a World Cup Pool-A encounter at the Saxton Oval here on Thursday.