KARACHI: Former Pakistan cricketer Rashid Latif believes the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has struck a deal with the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) while questioning the authenticity of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) retests results of Pakistan cricketers. During the first round of testing, 10 Pakistan cricketers had tested positive for Covid-19. However, after retests were conducted on those players, six players including Mohammad Hafeez, Wahab Riaz, Mohammad Hasnain, Shadab Khan, Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Rizwan tested negative for Covid-19. Meanwhile, Kashif Bhatti, Haris Rauf, Haider Ali and Imran Khan once again tested positive for the virus. “I have my doubts regarding these results. I thought it was wrong to announce the results of the first round of testing that was done on June 22. The next 48 hours were extremely critical. The PCB must have struck some kind of deal with the ECB. We don’t know what happened behind the scenes in those 48 hours. Now six players have returned negative after initially testing positive,” said Latif on his YouTube channel. “If the PCB is trading with the ECB to send their players despite them testing positive, then they must have struck some deal,” he added. PCB Chief Executive Wasim Khan on Saturday, while announcing the results of the retests, termed the process ‘challenging and unprecedented’. “This was a challenging and unprecedented process that we have conducted and I am pleased that following a second round of testing, we are able to confirm 20 players and 11 player support personnel will travel to Manchester on Sunday,” said Wasim.