Cummins had gone out for a dinner with his friend Harry Conway, who plays for BBL franchise Adelaide Strikersk, at a restuarant in Adelaide ahead of the second Test when a patron at the nearby table was identified as a Covid positive case.
Boland was brought in as cover earlier this week and received the starting nod when fellow fast bowlers Jhye Richardson and Michael Neser were ruled out because of muscle soreness.
The 51-year-old Australian pace legend says England and Australian players are too comfortable with each other as they play together in franchise leagues.
England pacer Jofra Archer is set to miss out the West Indies tour as he has undergone a second surgery on his injured right elbow. The right-arm pacer will be out of the game until next summer, the England and Wales Cricket Board said.
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Root was hit in the abdomen while batting in the nets ahead of Sunday's play at Adelaide Oval.
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England capitulated from 150-2 to be all out for 236 in reply to Australia's first-innings total of 473-9 declared.
The 30-year-old English Test skipper has now 1563 runs in the year, which is a run more than Tendulkar's run-haul of 1562 in 2010.
England were eight overs short (not 5 overs short as previously announced) but were only fined 100 per cent of their match fee due to the limit.
The former England captain wonders if Smith is the best man to lead Aussies as Atherton finds him so self-absorbed and seems to exist in his own bubble.
England are 0-1 down in the five-Test series, having lost the Brisbane Test by nine wickets.
Root also holds three of the top five overall yearly aggregate spots of all England batsmen in Test history.
It soon emerged that Stokes, bowling his first over in a test match since March, had also overstepped the crease on his previous three deliveries and not been called for a no-ball by the umpires.
By not playing the series opener, the team management feels Anderson can be better prepared for the subsequent pink-ball Test in Adelaide.
England arrived in Australia as Azeem Rafiq detailed allegations of institutional racism he experienced at Yorkshire. Wicketkeeper Tim Paine then quit as Australia captain before taking a leave of absence after a sexting scandal surfaced.
Root's team has a bit more clarity as in a surprising move rivals Australia named their starting eleven two days ahead of the start of the first Test at the Gabba on Wednesday
Persistent rain and storms restricted play on Tuesday and ensured no action was possible on Wednesday or Thursday between England and the England Lions at Peter Burge Oval in Brisbane.
Former England cricketer Alex Hales has issued a public apology after his images appeared showing the batter in 'blackface' during a fancy dress party.
The former Yorkshire cricketer, who has described in graphic detail his experiences of racist abuse when he played for Yorkshire, on Thursday admitted he had sent anti-Semitic messages as a 19-year-old.
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