Mohammed Shami was coping with an ankle harm that has saved him out of motion since November final yr. Regardless of exhibiting constructive indicators of restoration, Shami has not been included in Bengal’s squad for the subsequent two matches of the Ranji Trophy, the place they are going to face Karnataka and Madhya Pradesh. Final month, Shami talked about at an occasion that he had resumed bowling at full depth and that the restoration course of was yielding good outcomes. Nonetheless, his absence from the squad signifies that he’s nonetheless not prepared for aggressive cricket. Whereas it was the ankle harm that bothered Shami for the previous one yr, now the pacer has acquired a recent harm that has additional prolonged his comeback.
Shami has now developed a aspect pressure that has dominated him out of Bengal’s subsequent two Ranji Trophy matches, acknowledged Instances of India in a report. Which means Shami’s probabilities of being included within the India squad for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy, beginning November 22, has all however ended. He was not named within the group introduced for the Australia tour, however there have been hopes {that a} good present in home cricket may see him take the flight with the group.
Earlier, Shami suffered an ankle harm, which compelled him to avoid the sphere since November. He was the match’s main wicket-taker, with 24 wickets in simply seven video games at a median of 10.70 and financial system price of 5.70, with greatest figures of seven/57. He took three five-wicket hauls within the match and defied all of the ache and fatigue he was dealing with.
Bengal squad: Anustup Majumdar (capt), Wriddhiman Saha (wk), Sudip Chatterjee, Sudip Gharami, Shahbaz Ahmed, Writtick Chatterjee, Avilin Ghosh, Shuvam Dey, Shakir Habib Gandhi, Pradipta Pramanik, Aamir Gani, Ishan Porel, Suraj Sindhu Jaiswal, Mohammed Kaif, Rohit Kumar, Rishav Vivek.
India’s squad for Border-Gavaskar Trophy: Rohit Sharma (c), Jasprit Bumrah (vc), Ravichandran Ashwin, Mohammad Shami, Abhimanyu Easwaran, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja, Yashasvi Jaiswal, Dhruv Jurel (wk), Sarfaraz Khan, Virat Kohli, Prasidh Krishna, Rishabh Pant (wk), KL Rahul, Harshit Rana, Nitish Kumar Reddy, Mohammed Siraj, Washington Sundar.
(With ANI Inputs)
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