Sunrisers Hyderabad accelerated bowler Thangarasu Natarajan has go the archetypal IPL subordinate to trial affirmative for COVID-19 since the contention restarted past weekend.
The Indian Premier League said successful a connection past nighttime that the left-arm paceman has "isolated himself from the remainder of the squad."
Six different members of the team, including allrounder Vijay Shankar, were identified arsenic adjacent contacts of Natarajan and were besides placed successful isolation.
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The IPL said the full Hyderabad contingent went done investigating yesterday and their results returned negative.
"As a result, tonight's crippled betwixt Sunrisers Hyderabad and Delhi Capitals volition spell up astatine the Dubai International Stadium," the IPL said.
The lucifer did spell ahead.
The Delhi Capitals went connected to notch their seventh triumph with a thumping eight-wicket triumph implicit virus-hit Sunrisers.
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Without 2 cardinal players - Shankar and Natarajan - Hyderabad was constricted to 134-9 by Delhi's seamers and spinners.
Shreyas Iyer (47 not out) and skipper Rishabh Pant (35 not out) led the run-chase with a objective unbroken 67-run basal arsenic Delhi went atop the leaderboard with 14 points by reaching 139-2 successful 17.5 overs.
The world's richest Twenty20 league resumed successful the United Arab Emirates connected past play aft it was suspended successful aboriginal May erstwhile respective players from 2 of the 8 franchises tested affirmative for COVID-19 successful India.
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