CWG 2022: Amelia Kerr in isolation after testing positive for Covid-19

Amelia Kerr, the New Zealand spin-bowling allrounder, has tested positive for Covid-19 while on tour to England. The squad is travelling to take part in the cricket event at the upcoming Birmingham Commonwealth Games, starting July 28.

The positive result came out after a round of Rapid Antigen Tests conducted on the team members on Saturday. Following the positive test, 21-year-old Kerr is in isolation at the team hotel.

A NZC media statement said that Kerr was the only player from the touring party to test positive, while "the rest of the group will continue to be monitored and tested, as required".

The entire New Zealand contingent had travelled for England from Lincoln on July 12. New Zealand are scheduled to play their first match of the competition against South Africa on July 30.

But first, they will have another week of training at Millfield School in Somerset - including two practice matches against England A - before moving to Birmingham towards the end of July.

Kerr has been an integral part of the New Zealand set-up, having picked up 41 wickets in 41 bowling innings in T20Is at an economy of 5.94. With the bat, she has scored a total of 234 runs in 24 innings.

Women's cricket will feature at the Commonwealth Games for the first time at the upcoming edition, and cricket as a whole for only the second time after a men's ODI competition was held in Kuala Lumpur in 1998, won by South Africa.