India Tour of South Africa: Injury scare for Rohit Sharma – What comes as disturbing news for Team India fans, Test vice-captain Rohit Sharma suffered an injury during a practice session in Mumbai ahead of the upcoming Test & ODI series. Throwdown specialist Raghvendra bowled a delivery to Rohit that hit him on the hand and he was in deep pain. . He cut short Sharma’s net practice with a bouncer that looked to strike him hard with a blow on the gloves. Rohit Sharma winced in pain, and after a few nervous moments, he looked alright. Follow IND vs SA LIVE updates on InsideSport.IN
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A further update on the development is awaited. The development comes days ahead of Once Ajinkya Rahane had broken his finger while facing the throwdown expert in 2016 on eve of a Test match.
If the nature of the injury is found to be grievous then in such as case India have in-form Mayank Agarwal top open with KL Rahul. But with two weeks still left for the opening Test at SuperSport Park, Centurion. Chances are that Rohit is likely to recover from the injury scare. Team India would be hopeful that the condition wouldn’t be serious and it could be minor bruises.
Rohit Sharma has scored the second-most runs in Test cricket in 2021 only after Joe Root. He would look to continue his stellar form and provide India big starts as the visitors look to register the first-ever series win on South African soil. He had slammed 368 runs at an average of 52+ in England during the recent Test series with series decider postponed for next year.
Meanwhile, the players have joined the mandatory 3 days quarantine ahead of India’s scheduled departure to South Africa on December 16. Virat Kohli & Co will stay in a strict bio-bubble environment amid the new COVID variant threat Omicron.
India Tour of South Africa: Injury scare for vice-captain Rohit Sharma ahead of Test series- Follow LIVE updates
India’s Test squad: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), KL Rahul, Mayank Agarwal, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Hanuma Vihari, Rishabh Pant (wk), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), R Ashwin, Jayant Yadav, Ishant Sharma, Mohd. Shami, Umesh Yadav, Jasprit Bumrah, Shardul Thakur, Md. Siraj.
Standby Players: Navdeep Saini, Saurabh Kumar, Deepak Chahar, Arzan Nagwaswalla.
India Tour of South Africa: Test Series:
26-30 December 2021: 1st WTC Test vs India @ SuperSport Park, Centurion
03-07 January 2022: 2nd WTC Test vs India @ Imperial Wanderers, Johannesburg
11-15 January 2022: 3rd WTC Test vs India @ Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town
India Tour of South Africa: ODI Series:
January 19, 2022: 1st ODI vs India @ Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl
January 21, 2022: 2nd ODI vs India @ Eurolux Boland Park, Paarl
January 23, 2022: 3rd ODI vs India @ Six Gun Grill Newlands, Cape Town
India Tour of South Africa: Injury scare for vice-captain Rohit Sharma ahead of Test series- Follow LIVE updates
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