Asia Cup 2016 live scores schedule and results Crickettigers highlights 2016.Time to recover“The decision has been taken to give him more time to recover from the Grade II injury to his left hamstring,” stated a BCCI statement.Despite the cloud over his fitness hovering around, the selectors have decided to wait for at least another week to assess Shami’s availability for the next month’s World Twenty20.
Shami marked his return to competitive cricket during the group stage of domestic one-day competition and was selected for India’s ODI series in Australia last month.However, he broke down hours after the team’s arrival Down Under and was withdrawn from the squad.Nothing. He’s done nothing of consequence to warrant selection.
The Bengal bowler played last year’s World Cup with a dodgy knee. Subsequently he pulled out of IPL last year. He went under the scalpel and spent the next two months recuperating from surgery. It was a slow and painful road and the fast bowler, who sent batsmen scurrying in the past, could not move even between the rooms in his house.
The rehabilitation included a prolonged use of crutches. It was only after he kicked them away and gingerly started walking and jogging that he could even think about playing the game.Shami, in an interview had stated that it was one of the most difficult phases of his life and he needed to be mentally very strong and committed to be able to think positively about playing the game again.
There is no denying that at his peak Shami was hugely successful for India. He might have played just a dozen Tests (47 wickets), 47 ODIs (87 wickets) and a mere 4 T20Is (5 wickets @ 25 and an economy rate of 8.92) but was already looked upon as India’s best fast bowler, ahead of Ishant Sharma, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav and others.
He was quick, could move the ball both ways and delivered a useful yorker that tested batsmen at the death. But his career almost came to an abrupt end because of his bad knee.A 23-year-old Barinder Sran showed character and majority when he played his very first match on India’s recent tour of Australia. When Indians faced Western Australia (WA) in their first tour match, Sran opened bowling for the visitors. He took no more than an over to announce his arrival when he dismissed D’Arcy Short in his second over. That wasn’t the end; he struck again in his next over, removing WA skipper William Bosisto before finishing his quota of 4 overs with 2 wickets at a decent economy 6 an over. A good spell in the second tour match, in the 50-over format, ensured his place in the playing XI in the first 3 ODIs against Australia at WACA, The Gabba and MCG respectively.Though Sran managed wickets only in the first match, he was very economical when compared to the other bowlers. Despite Sran not playing all matches, only Ishant Sharma (9) and Umesh Yadav (7) finished with more wickets than him among the Indian bowlers. Pace bowler Mohammed Shami has been withdrawn from the squad for the Asia Cup, thus prolonging his wait to return to international cricket since suffering a knee injury during last year’s World Cup.The national selection panel, headed by Sandeep Patil, has replaced Shami with Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
