Team India's limited-overs specialists not to play all Ranji matches ahead of the World Cup

With the ICC World Cup not too far away, the Indian team management is taking things cautiously to ensure that the core group of players are not disturbed by things like injury. The management has reportedly come up with a program to regulate the amount of matches in the Ranji Trophy the ODI specialists play. With these players set to rejoin the squad in Australia after the Test series and play quite a few games in the run-up to the mega event, the team management doesn’t want them to risk any threat in domestic assignments.

Three key players in India’s ODI team – Shikhar Dhawan, Kedar Jadhav and Yuzvendra Chahal – who are certainties for the World Cup, will not be available for all games in the Ranji Trophy for their respective states this season. While it was not possible for Dhawan and Chahal to play in the Ranji Trophy since they were busy with T20I assignments Down Under, Jadhav gave the match a miss his side Maharashtra is playing against Karnataka.

They haven’t been completely barred but would need clearances

“Indian team’s trainer Shankar Basu and physio Patrick Farhart have put the ODI specialists on a program to monitor their workload. It’s not that they have been completely barred from playing Ranji but they will need clearances from the team management,” Times of India quoted a source close to the Team India management as saying. It also said that the team management is particularly cautious with Jadhav, who is injury prone, ahead of the big tournament.

It can be mentioned here that the Indian cricket board had asked Bengal not to bowl pacer Mohammad Shami more than 15 overs in their recent Ranji Trophy game against Kerala but the bowler rolled his arm for 26 overs, saying later that it was his “own decision”. The BCCI wanted to ensure that Shami did not sustain an injury ahead of the upcoming Test series in Australia.

Chahal is yet to return from Australia as he sought a leave for personal reasons while Dhawan has also not committed himself to his home state Delhi.

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