Mashrafe Mortaza tests positive for Covid-19

Former Bangladesh captain Mashrafe Mortaza has tested positive for novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

Mashrafe's younger brother Morsalin bin Mortaza confirmed the news to Sportstar.

"He wasn't keeping well for the last couple of days, so he had undergone a test. The results have come positive and now he has been home-quarantined," Morsalin said.

Mortaza has represented captained Bangladesh in all the three formats, featuring in 36 Tests, 220 ODIs and 54 T20Is over the course of his career so far.

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Nafees Iqbal, former Bangladesh cricketer and elder brother of ODI captain Tamim Iqbal, too, has also tested positive for Covid-19. He is currently in home isolation in Chittagong.

Recently, former Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi had also tested positive for Covid-19.

Earlier, South African first-class cricketer Solo Nqweni and Pakistan’s former opener Taufeeq Umar also tested positive for the same virus. 

In April, former Pakistan first-class cricketer Zafar Sarfaraz passed away in Peshawar, aged 50, while in March Scotland’s Majid Haq had also revealed that he had tested positive.