MPCA: Pearcedale Cricket Club player tests positive for Covid

More than 20 players, including juniors, from an MPCA club are in isolation after a player tested positive for Covid at training.

An MPCA cricketer has tested positive to Covid.

An MPCA cricketer has tested positive to Covid after attending two training sessions.

Pearcedale Cricket Club reported one of its players who attended senior training last Sunday and Tuesday tested positive for the virus on Friday.

All players at the sessions were advised to get tested and isolate for seven days.

“I think everyone realises it’s going to happen but it happened a bit sooner than we expected,” Pearcedale club president Andrew Williams said on Sunday.

Williams said “about 24’’ players, including juniors, had been affected.

“Our under 16s trained before the seniors and a few of them like to stay and train with the seniors,” he said.

More than 20 players from Pearcedale Cricket Club had to isolate.

Pearcedale coach Brad Trotter said the player who tested positive was double vaccinated and had no symptoms.

“It was a bit of a shock because the person that tested positive didn’t feel sick or anything and still doesn’t, or have any symptoms,” he said.

“I think it was from work. He got told he might have been in contact and, yeah, he tested positive.”

In a double blow to Pearcedale, the player who tested positive lives with another Dales player.

Both are key members of the club’s First XI.

They have to isolate for 14 days, finishing on the day before the opening round on November 13.

Trotter said Pearcedale’s members had thrown their support behind the player.

“Everyone’s getting behind him because he feels bad,” he said.

Williams said Pearcedale hopes to resume training on Wednesday.