The Board of Control for Cricket in India has come with the update on the injury to Rohit Sharma and Ishant Sharma and said that the pacer has been ruled out of the upcoming series against Australia while Rohit remains under the watch of the BCCI medical team. A further assessment of the right-hander's fitness will be done on December 11, after that, a decision on his availability for the Test series will be made. BCCI stated in releases that Ishant Sharma has recovered from his side strain injury but inadequate workload management means he is yet to be fit for a Test match.
“Ishant has recovered completely from his side strain injury sustained during IPL 2020 in the U.A.E. While he’s building up his workload in order to achieve Test match fitness, Mr Ishant Sharma has been ruled out of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy,” BCCI said in its media release.
The board took cognisance of a contentious question of why did Rohit Sharma decide to come back to India instead of going to Australia to complete rehabilitation in quarantine like Wriddhiman Saha and came up with the reason that forced the opener to return home before heading to NCA.
“Mr Rohit Sharma had to come back to Mumbai after the IPL to attend to his ailing father. His father is now recuperating well and that has allowed him to travel to the NCA and start his rehabilitation,” BCCI informed on Rohit’s decision to return.
Meanwhile, young seamer Navdeep Saini who has found a place in squads across formats has complained about back spasms and the BCCI has added rookie T Natarajan into the ODI squad. Earlier, he was added to T20 squad based on his good performance in the IPL and a possible rotational policy of pacers that Virat Kohli hinted on the eve of the first ODI.
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