The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has declared on Monday (August 28) that the Indian pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar is match fit and ready to return in the game.
The 28-year-old Indian right-arm pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar has recovered from the lower-back injury and has been added in India A squad for the remaining matches of the ongoing Quadrangular A series where India B, Australia A and South Africa A are also participating.
UPDATE: Bhuvneshwar Kumar has been declared fit & will be a part of the India A squad in the ongoing Quadrangular series. He will feature in the side's next fixture against South Africa A. pic.twitter.com/4TXF7jBU9i
— BCCI Domestic (@BCCIdomestic) August 27, 2018
During the limited-overs series on the UK tour, the injury problem raised with the time progresses. First, he featured in the first T20I of two-match T20I series against the hosts Ireland and then he played first two T20Is out of three T20Is against the hosts England.
Due to facing problem on the lower-back, the right-arm pacer was rested for the last T20I and the first two ODIs out of the three ODIs on the English tour. The Indian cricket team management was focusing to get him fit prior to the five-match Test series.
After observing his fitness, Bhuvneshwar was selected for the series-decider third and final ODI against the hosts England but things didn’t go according to the plan. After that final ODI, which India suffered a defeat, it raised Kumar’s fitness issue a lot of and initially it was thought that he would miss at least the first three Tests of the five-match Test series in England.
After the end of the first three Tests, he failed to prove the match-fit and missed the final squad for the last two Tests of the series. While the fourth Test is going to begin on this Thursday (August 30), it will be interesting to see if the team management will consider to call back him in the Test squad for the fifth Test at Oval that will begin on September 7.
At present, Kumar has been added in India A squad for the remaining matches of the ongoing Quadrangular A series. While India A failed to qualify for the final on Monday, they will play against South Africa A on Wednesday for the third-place play-off encounter in this series. Meanwhile, on the same day, India B will meet against Australia A in the final match of this series.
