Blackcaps blaster Tim Seifert has contracted COVID-19 for the second time, while playing in the Indian Premier League.
Seifert became Delhi Capitals' second overseas player to test positive, prompting IPL organisers to shift Friday's match from Pune to Mumbai.
Delhi reported five positive cases on Tuesday and there was uncertainty around Wednesday's game against Punjab Kings, which was eventually played at Mumbai's Brabourne Stadium.
Last May, Seifert - then a member of Kolkata Knight Riders - was stranded in India, when the IPL was postponed.
Just hours before he was due to return home with other New Zealanders involved in the tournament, he tested positive and had to stay until he was cleared to fly back.
Seifert spent two weeks in an Indian private hospital recovering, an experience he later revealed took an immense emotional toll.
"Your world kind of stops a little bit and I couldn't really think what was next," Seifert said. "That was the scary part, because you hear about the bad things that happen around it and I thought that was going to happen to me.
"Being in India, you turn on the TV and they are reporting that there is a lack of oxygen - which is very sad - but I was lucky I just had mild symptoms and didn't go through any of that."
Delhi captain Rishabh Pant said the team were determined to put their best foot forward, despite the setbacks.
"It's an unfortunate thing which happened to us," Pant said at the toss against Punjab at the Brabourne Stadium.
"We'll find our strength in each other and hopefully our players who are infected with COVID will be fine."
Delhi's Australian all-rounder Mitch Marsh has been admitted to hospital at Mumbai and four members of their support staff are isolating at a facility outside the team hotel.
The entire 2020 edition of the IPL was held in the United Arab Emirates, while the pandemic raged in India.
UAE also hosted the second half of last year's tournament, after an outbreak of the virus in several team camps at the halfway stage of the league.
To minimise risk of infection from air travel, the league phase of the 10-team competition has been confined to the western state of Maharashtra.
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