Colombo: Indian captain Rohit Sharma gave an update on the health of his two injured players after the historic win in the Asia Cup. Rohit Sharma said left-arm spinner Axar Patel could miss the first two ODIs against Australia next week while middle-order batsman Shreyas Iyer is 99 percent fit. Axar was injured in the Super Four leg against Bangladesh. He was excluded from the Asia Cup, with Washington Sundar taking his place. Rohit said, “Akshar has a minor injury.” It looks like it will get better in a week or ten days. I don’t know it. We’ll have to see what progress there is. Some people recover quickly. Hopefully the same thing happens to him. I don’t know if he can play the first two games against Australia or not. We have to wait.
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Iyer suffered a back injury in the Super Four leg against Pakistan, which prevented him from taking part in the Asia Cup as he has been training at the nets for the last few days. Rohit said, “Shreyas couldn’t play this game because some criteria were imposed on him, today he fulfilled almost all of them. “He is 99 percent fit, there is no need to worry about that.
Sundar was brought in as Akshar’s replacement. Rohit said that experienced off-spinner R. Ashwin is also to be considered. He said, “Ashwin’s name can also be considered as a spin all-rounder.” I am in touch with him over phone. Akshar got injured at the last moment. When Washington was available, he came and joined the team. Every player knows his role. However, if the team management wanted to get Ashwin, the flight from Chennai to Colombo would have taken just an hour.
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