India captain Rohit Sharma urged reporters current within the pre-match press convention of the first ODI vs England to not give attention to the negatives when he was requested what have been the choice plans in allrounder Hardik Pandya obtained injured like he did within the 2023 World Cup.
“Why are we serious about the negatives? That he’ll get injured, it will occur, that may occur. Within the minds of the selectors, there are issues in our minds. I can’t say that right here. However there are issues. We performed the World Cup when he obtained injured,” Rohit mentioned.
“He obtained injured within the third or 4th match. After that, we performed the entire match. Though we misplaced the ultimate, however we performed good cricket until the ultimate. So now, I gained’t take into consideration what is going to occur if he will get injured. What is going to occur if this occurs, what is going to occur if that occurs. I believe, you’re enjoying good cricket now. So we’ll hope that you just maintain enjoying good cricket and nothing occurs,” he added.
Within the 2023 World Cup, Pandya had sustained an ankle harm when he tried to cease a ball off his personal bowling within the league sport towards Bangladesh. This led to Pandya lacking the T20I collection at residence towards Australia and the three T20Is and three ODIs in South Africa that 12 months.
He in the end returned to aggressive cricket within the Indian Premier League final 12 months earlier than serving to India clinch the T20 World Cup in the identical 12 months. Nonetheless, the allrounder is but to play an ODI match for the reason that 2023 World Cup sport towards Bangladesh, the place he had sustained the harm.