Positive test for Ali

Cricket: England allrounder Moeen Ali is isolating in Sri Lanka after testing positive for Covid19 after his arrival for the team’s twotest tour.

Pace bowler Chris Woakes has been deemed as a possible close contact of Ali and was also observing a period of selfisolation in developments which have cast an early shadow on the tour that takes place weeks after a whiteball trip to South Africa was derailed by a spate of positive results.

Ali is due out of isolation on January 13, the day before the first test starts in Galle. Woakes is being advised to isolate for a minimum of seven days.