The South African women’s emerging team was scheduled to return home on April 14. But due to the announcement of strict lockdown in Bangladesh from this day, it was decided to send the visitors a day earlier, on 13th April.
Incidentally, South Africa visited Bangladesh on March 26 to play a five-match ODI series against the Bangladesh women’s emerging cricket team. As the only venue of the series was at the Sylhet International Cricket Stadium, they came to Sylhet directly from Dhaka on the same day.
The African women’s team went to the five-star Hotel Roseview in Sylhet. Just before leaving the hotel, South Africa’s emerging women’s cricket team received news of being infected with the coronavirus.
On March 26 in Sylhet, they got a negative result in the first Covid Test. Then on March 29-31, they stayed in quarantine at the Team Hotel for three days. They also all turned negative in the second round of the Covid Test held on March 31 at the end of the quarantine.
The two teams played four ODIs after practicing from April 1-3 after the two-point coveted Test. Bangladesh women’s emerging team won the series with two matches in hand.
The women of the South African team were scheduled to catch a flight on April 13 due to a lockdown without playing the fifth and final match of the series on April 13. According to him, they gave samples for the Covid Test in the third phase on April 12.