IPL winning captain of the Mumbai Indians and Indian batting star Rohit Sharma is only 70 per cent fit and that was the reason why the selectors are not risking him for the limited-overs series in Australia albeit he has been added into the Test squad for the series starting December 17, BCCI President Sourav Ganguly has revealed.
“Rohit is still 70 per cent. Why don't you find out from Rohit himself? That is why he is still not picked for the ODIs and T20s down under. He has been added to the Test squad," Ganguly said in an interview with The Week magazine.
Rohit Sharma had made a surprising comeback into the Mumbai Indians’ playing XI after national selectors had raised doubts over his fitness and said that he was under the watch of the BCCI medical team. His presence for his franchise and omission from the squads for the tour of Australian raised many eyebrows before the selectors announced his addition into the Test squad. However, the mystery surrounding his hamstring injury that he had picked up while running on October 18 in the game against the Kings XI Punjab remained deepened as people argued his presence in the IPL and absence from limited-overs series Down Under.
Earlier, Sourav Ganguly had also cautioned Rohit Sharma against rushing in to play before fully recovering from injury calling that he has a big and long career ahead of him and that the IPL 2020 and the subsequent Australia series were not the end of his cricket career.
Ganguly also defended the alleged opacity regarding the nature of injuries to Indian players calling people unaware of the functioning of the board and its different functionaries. With the reference to the hamstring injury to India’s Test wicketkeeper Wriddhiman Saha, Ganguly said that the BCCI, physios and the team management are having all the necessary details regarding Saha’s injury.
"Who should know? We know, the Indian physio knows, the NCA knows. I think people don't know how the BCCI works. The BCCI trainers, physio and Wriddhi himself know that he has two hamstring issues. People don't understand injuries, that is why they talk rubbish,” Ganguly said in his typical no holds barred manner.
Ganguly also said that Saha will be fit for the Test series as he is not part of the limited-overs series and Test series will begin only mid next month.
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