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Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan, two Indian batsmen who have been under the microscope in recent weeks for not turning up in domestic cricket, are set to return to action.
Iyer, who was dropped from the Indian Test squad for the ongoing Test series agianst England, missed the quarter-final in the Ranji Trophy, which was to be played against Baroda.
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The right-hand batter, though, will play for the Mumbai Ranji Trophy team after being named in their squad for the semi-final.
Kishan, on the other hand, has been on an extended leave of absence after first withdrawing from the Test team in South Africa in December. He will feature for the Reserve Bank of India in the DY Patil T20 Cup 2024, where his IPL captain Hardik Pandya is also playing.
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Recapping the events involving BCCI, Ishan Kishan, and Shreyas Iyer
Kishan returned home after opting out of the two-match Test series against South Africa in December 2023.
Reports emerged which stated that Kishan wanted some time away from cricket as he had been experiencing ‘mental fatigue’.
However, he didn’t make himself available for the Afghanistan T20I series in early January, as well as the Test series against England.
In the meantime, he didn’t even turn up for Jharkhand to play for them in the Ranji Trophy, with the Jharkhand coach going as far as to say that they couldn’t get in touch with the 26-year.
BCCI released a strict diktat, which mentioned that all IPL contracted players will have to play a set number of Ranji Trophy games in order to be able to participate in that season’s IPL.
Earlier this month, the southpaw was spotted in Baroda along with his Mumbai Indians teammate and captain Hardik Pandya, where the duo were training in order to retain fitness.
As for Iyer, the middle-order batsman was axed from the squad for the final three Tests after the player registered underwhelming displays in the first two Tests against England.
Iyer was scheduled to participate in the quarter-final, which Mumbai won against Baroda . He was ultimately, however, forced to withdraw from the match out of caution. Iyer’s match against Andhra in December, which preceded the England series, was his only other Ranji Trophy outing this season.
Did Rohit Sharma deliver indirect jibe towards Shreyas Iyer and Ishan Kishan?
In the post-match press conference following India’s five-wicket win over England on Monday, February 26, India skipper Rohit Sharma wasted no time at all to praise debutants Sarfaraz Khan, Dhruv Jurel, Akash Deep, as well as other youngsters in Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill, all of who have performed admirably to help India win the series 3-1 with one Test to go.
However, his statements might possibly have been directed at the likes of Kishan and Iyer.
Jinko Test Cricket ka bhook nahi hai, wo dekh ke pata chal jata hai. Un sab ko khilane ka kya faida? (Those who don’t have the hunger for Test cricket, we can just look at them and get to know. What is the point in playing them?).
Mumbai squad: Ajinkya Rahane (C), Prithvi Shaw, Bhupen Lalwani, Musheer Khan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Hardik Tamore (wk), Shams Mulani, Tanush Kotian, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande, Mohit Avasthi, Amogh Bhatkar, Prasad Pawar (wk), Aditya Dhumal, Royston Dias, Dhawal Kulkarni.
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