New Delhi. In the Asia Cup, due to bad weather, Team India had to play matches on two consecutive days. The good thing is that it did not affect Team India and India beat Pakistan and then Sri Lanka to book their ticket to the finals of the Asia Cup. Now India’s last match in the Super-4 round is against Bangladesh. The Bangladesh team is already out of the race for the finals and India has also reached the finals. In such a situation, this match is not very important for both the teams. For this reason, most of the players who played against Sri Lanka kept themselves away from the team’s practice session on Thursday.
Players like Indian captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, Hardik Pandya and Mohammad Siraj kept themselves away from the optional practice session ahead of the match against Bangladesh and decided to rest for recovery. The good thing for India was that Shreyas Iyer, who sat out the matches against Pakistan and Sri Lanka due to injury, certainly took part in the practice session and looked in great form. He batted in the nets for a long time. Apart from Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Suryakumar Yadav, Ravindra Jadeja and Tilak Verma were also seen in the practice session.
Before the warm-up match before the toss in Pakistan’s Super-4 match, Shreyas Iyer complained of back pain and stiffness. After this, he was decided not to play in the match and was replaced by KL Rahul. Rahul made a strong comeback in the Indian team by scoring a century. He had a record partnership with Virat Kohli. After this, Shreyas did not even play in the match against Sri Lanka and Ishan Kishan played in this match. Ishan played an innings of 33 runs against Sri Lanka.
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India also won this match. Now Shreyas has started practice. However, whether he will play in the last Super-4 match against Bangladesh or not will be known only after passing the fitness test, but if Shreyas is fit, it is certain that he will play. Who will leave the team in such a situation, KL Rahul or Ishan Kishan, remains to be seen.
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Tags: Asia Cup, India vs Bangladesh, Rohit Sharma, Shreyas Iyer, Team India
First published: September 14, 2023, 14:46 IST