Ishan Kishan and Shreyas Iyer’s absence from the continuing Ranji Trophy match might have important repercussions for them. According to sources, each gamers might face the lack of their central contracts when the BCCI broadcasts its upcoming checklist.
“The selectors, led by Ajit Agarkar, has almost finalised the list of centrally contracted players for the 2023-24 season too, which the BCCI will announce soon. Kishan and Iyer are likely to be excluded from that list, as both haven’t been playing domestic cricket despite the BCCI’s diktat to do so,” a supply informed TOI. (SRK Teaches His Iconic DDLJ Dialogue, Poses To MI-W’s Issy Wong, Meg Lanning – WATCH)
Since getting back from the India tour of South Africa in December-January, Ishan Kishan has been on an prolonged break citing “personal reasons.” Despite practising along with his Mumbai Indians captain Hardik Pandya in Baroda, Kishan has not represented Jharkhand within the ongoing Ranji Trophy. Meanwhile, Shreyas Iyer was notably absent from Mumbai’s remaining Ranji Trophy league match towards Assam at BKC and also will miss the upcoming quarter-remaining towards Baroda.
Iyer had initially knowledgeable the Mumbai Cricket Association of his unavailability as a consequence of again spasms. However, an e-mail from Nitin Patel, the top of sports activities science and medication on the National Cricket Academy, to the BCCI and nationwide selectors acknowledged that Iyer was deemed ‘match’.
However, a supply near Iyer talked about that the batsman was “excluded from India’s squad for the last three Tests as a precautionary measure, after he complained of a back problem.”
“Patel’s email to the BCCI was written after the second Test against England. Since then, a back problem has bothered Iyer,” the supply stated. (IPL 2024: Janhvi Kapoor’s Favourite Cricketers Are These 2 RCB Players)
“Iyer was one of India’s top performing batsmen in the ODI World Cup in India last year. He won’t lose the contract just because he missed the odd Ranji match,” he insisted.
Last week, BCCI secretary Jay Shah issued a stern warning to centrally contracted and India A cricketers, stating that their absence from the continuing Ranji Trophy wouldn’t be accepted. Shah emphasised that chief selector Ajit Agarkar would have full authority in addressing this matter.
