Sharma sidelined for three months

Sport360 staff 19:28 04/11/2016
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  • This is a big blow to Rohit Sharma's Test career.

    Indian cricketer Rohit Sharma is set to miss, not only the Test series, but also the ODIs and T20Is against England due to his thigh injury. Rohit will meet a medical consultant, who will decide if he has to undergo a surgery or not, in London next week.

    In the fifth and final ODI of the series against New Zealand, Rohit injured his right thigh while diving to complete a run. The Mumbai batsman braved through the pain and scored 70 from just 65 deliveries as India won the match by 190 runs to take the series 3-2.

    Earlier in the day, speaking at the launch of an Adidas Home Court store in Mumbai, Rohit said: “I don’t know (how much time I will miss cricket) our BCCI medical team is in touch with doctors, the scans we have got till now have been sent to doctors, we are waiting for their opinion, whether to do surgery or not, if we do the surgery then how much time is needed.

    “The picture is not fully clear. I think in one or two days the picture will be more clear, whether it (surgery) is happening or not. It is an important decision if we do surgery. If I do the surgery, I cannot play for three to three and half months. We are waiting for the doctors’ opinion, let’s see what happen.”

    The timing of the injury is very unfortunate for Rohit as he seemed to have been finally finding his feet in Test cricket. In the recent Test series against the Blackcaps, he scored three half-centuries in as many matches.

    The England Test series was a great opportunity for the 29-year-old to cement his place in India’s Test line-up, but this unfortunate injury has quashed all such hopes.

    Explaining the status of his injury, Rohit mentioned that there was a slight delay in taking a scan of the same because hospitals were not fully functional for a couple of days due to Diwali.

    “Like you saw, while taking a run the muscle pulled up then I understood that I won’t make it to the crease, so I dived, after that our physio told me that it was necessary to take a scan.

    “The next two days was Diwali so all hospitals were closed, so we took the scan on (November) first and after that all the medical reports were given to BCCI medical team,” he added.

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