India misplaced the third and remaining ODI in opposition to Australia in Chennai on Wednesday (March 23) by 21 runs and thereby additionally went down within the sequence by 2-1 margin. With the worldwide house season concluded, all of the gamers will now be seen in motion within the sixteenth version of the Indian Premier League (IPL) that’s scheduled to begin on March 31. Amidst all this, there was quite a bit of scrutiny over current accidents to key gamers like Shreyas Iyer, Jasprit Bumrah whereas Rishabh Pant can be lacking because the flip of the yr.
Moreover, with two months of IPL to be adopted by the World Test Championship Final in June, there’s a risk of extra gamers getting injured. Speaking of the identical after the match within the press convention, Rohit Sharma acknowledged that the rules have been shared with all IPL franchises however it’s up to them and the gamers now to comply with it or not. He additionally went on to say that the gamers ought to know the state of their body and they’ll have to talk accordingly.
“It’s all up to the franchise now. Franchises own them now. We’ve given them some indications or some kind of border line kind of things to teams. But at the end of the day, it’s up to the franchises and most importantly it’s the players. They have to take care of their own body. They are all adults. So they have to look after their body and adjust if they feel like it’s getting a little too much, they can always talk about it and have a break in 1-2 games. I doubt that’ll happen but,” Rohit stated.
Rohit Sharma admitted that the frequent accidents to gamers is regarding but additionally assured that the medical staff of BCCI is working onerous behind the scenes. With 2023 being the World Cup yr, India shall be trying to get some of their key gamers slot in time for the mega occasion. “Look it’s regarding as a result of if the gamers usually are not out there it’s regarding. And we’re lacking gamers who’re really Playing XI gamers. They recurrently play within the enjoying XI. Honestly, everyone seems to be attempting their finest to get everybody on the park.
“We’ve been focussing a lot on management of the players a lot. Which is why you keep seeing, we have to rest certain players at certain points of time. From our side we could do our best in terms of handling them. I mean, I’m not a specialist to tell you why the recurring injuries are happening. Of course the medical team of ours is definitely looking into all of this and making sure that come the World Cup we’ve got our best 15 players ready,” he added.
“Obviously, when you play so much cricket, injuries are bound to happen. So not looking too much into it, what’s available to you, what’s in your hand you can control that. Not looking too much into what’s available to you, what’s in your hand you can control that. We’re just trying to control all of that. Players are frustrated as well. They want to play, they don’t want to miss out. It is a little sad but at the end of the day, you cannot really do much. I can see and can vouch for it that the people working behind the scenes are working really hard with all these players. Freakish injury can happen at any time. Shreyas was the best example. He was sitting the whole day, and he just went to take a knock and the injury happened to him. There’s nothing you could do about it. I mean the only thing we can keep in mind is managing players and giving them enough weeks and I think from our side we’re doing that,” Rohit additional stated.
