Australia’s freshly-minted men’s Test cricket captain Pat Cummins was ruled out of the 2nd Ashes test in Adelaide yesterday – but not because of injury. He was identified as a close contact of a COVID-19 case. Cummins was at a restaurant on Wednesday night, and a diner at the next table unknowingly had COVID – that meant the Aussie skipper was deemed a close contact, so he’s isolating for 7 days. As for the cricket, vice-captain Steve Smith is at the helm for the first time since the infamous ball-tampering scandal in 2018. Cricket Australia boss Nick Hockley said the incident was “extremely unlucky”, and Cummins tweeted he was “gutted” to miss the Test but was “really excited” for Queenslander Michael Neser to take his place in his Test debut. Speaking of high profile people who have received health department text messages, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has also been told to “test; isolate; check for symptoms”…