Highlights
- Team India was troubled by players’ injuries during the England tour.
- Jasprit Bumrah was out of the last match due to knee injury.
- In the third ODI, England defeated India by a margin of 27 runs.
In the third ODI match played at Lord’s, England defeated India by 27 runs. With this they won the series 2-1. Team India captain Shubhman Gill looked very angry after the defeat in the third ODI. Along with this, he also expressed concern over the fitness of the team players. The Indian team was troubled by injuries throughout this series. Even before the series started, all-rounder Hardik Pandya and his backup Nitish Kumar Reddy got injured. After this, Harshit Rana and Washington Sundar also got injured at different times of the tour.
Team combination deteriorates due to players’ injuries – Shubman Gill
The biggest blow to the team was when experienced fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah was ruled out of the last match due to a knee injury in the second match. Shubman Gill said after the Lord’s ODI match that at least five players of the main team selected initially were not able to play in this last match. Expressing his disappointment, he said that when one or two players get injured continuously, the team’s combination gets completely spoiled and we have to play with a different combination even if we do not want to.
Players will have to improve fitness before the World Cup
Shubman Gill simply said that we have to play 11 consecutive matches in the World Cup, but here our players are not able to play even a small series of 2-3 matches. He said that if a player comes early in the morning on the match day and says that he has a muscle strain, then it becomes very difficult to change the entire planning at the last moment. We cannot take the risk of playing a player who is only 80 percent fit, because if he leaves the field in the middle of the match, it will only harm the team. Gill warned that if we want to do well in future, the entire team will have to improve its fitness at all costs.
Shubman Gill also looked troubled with cramps
However, captain Shubman Gill himself also did not look completely fit. In the first match played in Birmingham, he was playing on 80 runs when he retired hurt and had to leave the field due to cramps. Even in the last match at Lord’s, he suffered from cramps and was out after scoring 77 runs. In the third ODI match, Rohit Sharma played a brilliant century for Team India. He was out after scoring 138 runs. Virat Kohli also contributed 74 runs.
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