Resurrection of Shreyas Iyer for Ranji Semi-Final; Kishan Makes a Regress for the T20
In exciting cricket updates, Shreyas Iyer is set to make a comeback for the Mumbai team in the Ranji Trophy semi-final after overcoming back spasms that sidelined him during the quarter-final clash against Baroda. Simultaneously, Ishan Kishan makes a return to competitive cricket by participating in the DY Patil T20 tournament for the Reserve Bank of India.
Although he fights to get ready in time to play for the Chennai Super Kings in the IPL, Shivam Dube will remain sidelined due to a side strain.
After India captain Rohit Sharma stated on Monday that players who “have the hunger” to participate and produce in Tests will be given priority when it comes to selection, Iyer and Kishan found themselves in the public eye. Iyer was benched for the final three Tests of the present England series after being selected for the first two of the five matches.
After Kishan, the wicketkeeper-batter for Jharkhand and India, decided not to play in the Ranji Trophy in late December, his argument got increasingly strange. Kishan scored 19 runs off of 12 balls in the DY Patil T20 match.
Iyer was scheduled to participate in the quarterfinal, which Mumbai won thanks to a first-inning advantage, but he was ultimately forced to withdraw from the match out of caution. Iyer’s match against Andhra in December, which preceded the England series, will be his second Ranji match of the season.
Iyer was dropped out of the Test team after India’s series-tying victory in Visakhapatnam, and he isn’t in it at the moment. In his final four innings of the Test, he scored 29, 27, 13, and 35. Sarfaraz Khan, a teammate from Mumbai, was given a Test cap in Iyer’s absence and began with two half-centuries in Rajkot.
Any concerns about Iyer’s reoccurring injury problems are allayed by his return for the semi-final match versus Tamil Nadu. After missing the entire Indian Premier League season the previous year, he had back surgery.
Before the Asia Cup, he returned to the ODI setup, and he played a significant role in India’s World Cup team that finished in second place. Iyer scored two hundreds and three half-centuries in his 530 runs in 11 innings. He will lead the Kolkata Knight Riders in the 2024 Indian Premier League, where he will work with Chandrakant Pandit for the first time as head coach. Gautam Gambhir, a former captain, has also joined Knight Riders as a team mentor.
Before giving Dhruv Jurel his first Test cap in Kishan’s absence, India gave KS Bharat a Test recall. Dhruv Jurel was named Player of the Match for his 90 and 39* in Ranchi, when India grabbed an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the five-Test series. Kishan had been training at a private facility in Baroda earlier this month with his IPL captain, Hardik Pandya.
Mumbai Ranji Squad for Semi-Final
Ajinkya Rahane (C), Shreyas Iyer, Prithvi Shaw, Bhupen Lalwani, Amogh Bhatkal, Musheer Khan, Prasad Pawar, Hardik Tamore, Shardul Thakur, Shams Mulani, Tanush Lotian, Aditya Dhumal, Tushar Despande, Mohit Avasthi, Dhawal Kulkarni and Royston Dias.
