The veteran Indian batsman, Rohit Sharma has been rested from the first four-day game against New Zealand A. According to a BCCI press release, Rohit has been advised rest by the BCCI Medical Team in consultation with the team management and the Selection Committee, keeping his recent workload in mind.

Rohit led the Indian team to the 3-0 series win in the recently concluded T20I series against the Windies in the absence of Virat Kohli. He was also part of the Indian ODI squad that won the five-match series 3-1.

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Sharma has also included in the Test squad for Australia after being dropped after he featured in the first couple of Test matches in South Africa in January. However, he didn’t have the best of series, scoring 78 runs in 4 innings at an average of 19.50. He was dropped after the second Test in Centurion. Later on, on he has dropped the squad for the five-Test series in England.

The hitman will now travel with India’s T20 squad that will leave for Australia on November 16, 2018, from Mumbai. Earlier, Rohit Sharma was included in the India ‘A’ squad for the first game in New Zealand ‘A’ in order to give him some game time with the red ball ahead of Australia series. India plays a practice game in Sydney before the first Test at Adelaide and that will now be Rohit’s only opportunity to get himself acclimatize with the conditions before the series begins on December 6.

India A squad for the 1st four-day game against New Zealand A:

Ajinkya Rahane (Captain), M Vijay, Prithvi Shaw, Mayank Agarwal, Hanuma Vihari, Parthiv Patel (wicket-keeper), K Gowtham, Shahbaz Nadeem, Mohammed Siraj, Navdeep Saini, Deepak Chahar, Rajneesh Gurbani, Vijay Shankar, KS Bharat (wicket-keeper)