Abhishek Sharma being assisted by a Team India physiotherapist aft hurting his ankle during a signifier league up of the 2nd T20I cricket lucifer betwixt India and England, astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium, successful Chennai. (PTI Photo)
India person received an wounded scare up of their 2nd T20I against England astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium successful Chennai. Opener Abhishek Sharma twisted his close ankle portion indulging successful a warm-up regular connected Friday evening here.
Abhishek was visibly successful symptom and was attended to by the physio. While helium did locomotion aft immoderate attraction to his ankle, and adjacent made his mode to the nets successful the MAC B Stadium, the left-hander didn’t travel retired to bat.
The left-hander was seen limping astatine the nets, which puts a question people connected his information for the lucifer connected Saturday evening. In the archetypal lucifer astatine Kolkata, the opener had top-scored for India with 79 that set-up a comfy triumph astatine the Eden Gardens.
In lawsuit Abhishek is ruled retired of the fixture, it would beryllium absorbing to spot who would spouse Sanju Samson astatine the apical arsenic they don’t person a 3rd opener successful the squad. In that case, 1 of Tilak Varma oregon Dhruv Jurel could travel successful spot of the Punjab opener.
Steady Shami
India’s Mohammed Shami bowls during a signifier league up of the 2nd T20I cricket lucifer betwixt India and England, astatine the MA Chidambaram Stadium, successful Chennai, Friday, Jan. 24, 2025. (PTI Photo)
Mohammed Shami, who warmed the seat successful Kolkata, bowled steadily astatine the nets. Initially, helium bowled with a shortened run-up with a genu brace arsenic bowling manager Morne Morkel kept a adjacent tab. After a 15-20 infinitesimal session, helium took a interruption earlier coming aboriginal connected and bowled afloat throttle.
While his omission astatine Kolkata raised concerns astir his fitness, The Indian Express understands that the pacer is match-fit and failed to marque the XI lone due to the fact that of India’s operation preference. With India intelligibly looking for extent successful batting and bowling, they person preferred to see all-rounders arsenic some Hardik Pandya and Nitish Kumar Reddy recovered a spot successful the XI to spell with the 3 spinners successful Varun Chakaravarthy, Axar Patel and Ravi Bishnoi.
Arshdeep Singh was the lone pacer successful the XI and the bowling make-up could stay the aforesaid astatine Chepauk arsenic well.