All-rounder Vijay Shankar has been ruled out from the upcoming Quadrangular 50-over series due to an injury. India A, India B, Australia A and South Africa A will participate in this competition which will be held at Vijayawada from August 17 to 29.
The 27-year-old Tamil Nadu all-rounder is suffering from a left hamstring injury. At present, he is undergoing the rehabilitation period at NCA (Bengaluru) but will miss the upcoming Quadrangular series. For that series, Shankar was selected for India B.
The BCCI interim secretary Amitabh Choudhary said, “Vijay Shankar was part of the India B squad in the Quadrangular series. However, the Senior Selection Committee has reached a consensus that there won’t be a replacement for Shankar in the India B squad.”
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During the 2018 Nidahas Trophy, the T20I tri-series between Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh in Sri Lanka, the all-rounder made his international cricket debut. He has played 5 T20Is where he has scored 17 runs and also has taken 3 wickets.
In the late IPL 2018, Delhi Daredevils all-rounder Shankar impressed with the bat as a middle-order batsman. Recently, he also toured in England for India A, where he played a total of four List A matches and two first-class matches.
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Shankar is feeling frustrated after getting ruled out from the upcoming Quadrangular series. Shankar called it was a freak injury and he is inexperienced with this injury.
Shankar told TOI, “I am getting injured all the time during India A commitments. It affects me mentally. This is the first time I’m having a muscle-related injury. I slipped while bowling and injured my left hamstring tendon. This was a freak injury.”
“To miss out on some cricket every year after going to play for India A is very disappointing and frustrating. Since this was the first muscle injury, I did not know how to react to it initially,”
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Initially, he thought that it will take 2-3 weeks time to get fit, but it will take some more time to recover.
The all-rounder added, “To be honest, I was really hoping to play the quadrangular series and maybe even the four-day matches against Australia A. Initially, I thought I will recover in 2-3 weeks’ time, but it is taking more time to recover.
“Recently, I went and visited my doctor (surgeon) in Mumbai along with NCA physio Ashish Kaushik. He had done my knee surgery. He told me that it is going to take some more time and that it needs to be monitored every week.”
