India’s damage woes within the Test sequence towards Australia compounded on Monday after the hero of their drawn sport in Sydney, Hanuma Vihari, was dominated out of the fourth and remaining match with a hamstring tear that might maintain him out of motion for a substantial time.
It has been learnt that Vihari was taken for scans after the match received over and the reviews are anticipated by late night in Sydney or Tuesday morning.
However, a BCCI supply confirmed to PTI that Vihari is unlikely to be slot in time for the subsequent Test match beginning in one other three days’ time. The Andhra participant scored 23 off 161 balls in an exhausting efficiency to save lots of the match with Ravichandran Ashwin.
“The extent of Vihari’s tear can only be ascertained after the scan reports come through. But even if it’s a grade 1 tear, he is out for at least four weeks and then will need some rehabilitation time. So it’s not only Brisbane Test but also, he won’t be a part of England Tests at home,” a senior supply revealed on Monday.
The Indian workforce received’t be lacking Vihari to that extent towards England as in a house sequence, there was little probability of him making it to the primary XI with an additional bowler all the time being the popular choice.
Vihari will once more be required on the seaming tracks in England the place an additional batsman will definitely be part of the enjoying XI.
As far as Vihari’s alternative is anxious, the workforce solely has two choices — both to play Wriddhiman Saha as a wicketkeeper and Rishabh Pant purely as a batsman or herald Mayank Agarwal as a middle-order batsman who can tackle the second new ball.
As of now, there’s little or no probability of an off form Prithvi Shaw being thought-about within the enjoying XI.
It is learnt that each Vihari and Pant, who performed a career-defining 97-run knock on Monday, got a number of pain-killers in order that they might keep it up.
In one other necessary improvement, Shardul Thakur, with far more first-class expertise and higher batting skills in comparison with rookie Thangarsu Natarajan, is more likely to exchange an injured Ravindra Jadeja in Brisbane on a observe that’s speculated to be the bounciest of the sequence.
Shardul was additionally in rivalry to play the second Test of his profession in Sydney however Navdeep Saini’s tempo on a placid observe grew to become a clincher.
However, with Jadeja’s damage, the Indian workforce may have no choice however to play one amongst Shardul and Natarajan with the previous being the favorite in the intervening time.
