Indian group’s rising damage record is ‘concerning’ however captain Rohit Sharma doubts any participant will choose out of the Indian Premier League (IPL) 2023 video games to handle workload when the high-profile T20 league begins on March 31. From Jasprit Bumrah to Shreyas Iyer, the variety of injured nationwide group gamers is mounting, and Rohit mentioned the onus is on the IPL franchise homeowners and gamers themselves to handle workload forward of the ODI World Cup the nation is internet hosting in October-November.
“It is concerning. We are missing the players who are actually the playing XI players,” Rohit mentioned after India misplaced the third ODI towards Australia by 21 runs on Wednesday to concede the collection 1-2. “They (players) are all adults. So they have to look after their body and just if they feel that it’s getting a little too much, they can always talk about it and have a break in one or two games. I doubt (if) that will happen but…,” the captain mentioned.
Following the IPL 2023 which ends on May 28, the Indian gamers will get little over per week to prepare for the World Test Championships closing to be performed on the Oval in London from June 7. Rohit mentioned the Indian group administration has given ‘indications’ to the IPL franchise homeowners about workload administration of the gamers, maintaining the 50-over showpiece in thoughts.
“It’s all up to the franchises now. The franchises own them (the players) now, so we’ve given some indications or some kind of borderline kind of thing to the teams. At the end of the day it’s up to the franchise and, most importantly it’s the players, they have to take care of their own body,” the Indian skipper mentioned.
While India missed the providers of Bumrah for all the bilateral collection towards Australia, Iyer’s again damage resurfaced throughout the fourth and closing Test in Ahmedabad and he missed the next three ODIs. “Honestly, everyone is trying their best to get everyone on the park. We’ve been focusing a lot on management of the players, which is why we have to rest certain players at certain point of time,” the captain mentioned.
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“From our side, we could do our best in terms of handling them. But, I am not a specialist to tell you why recurring injuries are happening. The medical team of ours is looking into all of this and making sure that, come the World Cup, we’ve got our best 15 players ready.”
Iyer first felt discomfort on his decrease again final December after which missed the ODI collection towards New Zealand at dwelling and the opening Test towards Australia. Iyer, who captains Kolkata Knight Riders, is prone to miss some video games of the IPL as a result of recurring damage.
“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, and we are just trying to control all of that,” Rohit mentioned.
“Players are frustrated as well. They want to play, they don’t want to miss out. So it’s a little sad, but at the end of the day, you cannot really do too much.”
Rohit mentioned the medical group is doing every thing doable to make sure the effectively being of the gamers. “I can see, and I can vouch for it, that the people working behind the scenes are working really hard with all these players, and freakish injury can happen at any point in time, like Shreyas (Iyer) was the best example. He was sitting the whole day and he just went to take a knock and the injury happened to him. And there’s nothing you could do about it, the only thing we can keep in mind is managing players and giving them enough breaks. And I think from our side we’re doing that,” the India captain mentioned.
