Monday's Indian Premier League match between the Kolkata Knight Riders and Royal Challengers Bangalore has been postponed after two positive Covid-19 tests.
The Knight Riders pair Varun Chakravarthy and Sandeep Warrier tested positive with the IPL's bio-secure bubble breached for the first time since the season started on April 9.
It comes as the virus takes an ever-greater grip on India with 3,689 deaths reported on Sunday and 392,488 new cases to take the total number to 19.56 million.
Kolkata Knight Riders bowler Varun Chakravarthy is one of two of their player to have tested positive for Covid-19 - forcing the postponement of Monday's match
The number of coronavirus cases in India has risen exponentially in recent weeks to almost 400,000 new cases per day as of Sunday and almost 20m confirmed cases overall
So far, the virus has killed 215,542 people in the country although experts believe the actual numbers of both cases and deaths are likely to be considerably higher.