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Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur,
and Mohammed Siraj as India’s
seam-bowling options for the series.
The captain, Rohit Sharma, is ques-
tionable for the Test series opener
after injuring his thumb in the second
ODI in Mirpur on Wednesday.
Ravindra Jadeja has been out of
action after suffering a knee injury
due to which the southpaw had to
undergo knee surgery.
Rohit has subsequently gone to
Mumbai to see a specialist, but the
BCCI is yet to provide an update on
the status of his injury.
After India lost the ODI series
2-0, Rohit expressed his displeasure
with India’s growing injury list. Deep-
ak Chahar (hamstring strain) and
Kuldeep Sen (back strain) are also
on the list.
India lost the second match of
the ODI series by five runs to give
Bangladesh its second 50-over for-
mat series victory against the men
in blue.

Cricket fraternity hails Rohit Virat Kohli gets bowled during the 2nd ODI match against Bangladesh (ANI)
for gutsy half-century

he Indian cricket fraternity “gritty” knock. Chasing 272, India was also re- six fours and three sixes at a strike
took to social media to hail “Gritty from @ImRo45 too giv- duced to 65/4 due to some fantastic rate of 80.39.
TRohit Sharma for playing de- ing everything despite the injury,” bowling by Bangladesh. Though India lost the match by
spite an injury and scoring a valiant tweeted Rohit. Shreyas Iyer (82) continued his five runs, his knock and consistency
half-century in his side’s five-run loss Domestic cricket legend and for- golden run with the bat, putting a emerged as positives for the Men in
to Bangladesh in the second ODI on mer Indian opener Wasim Jaffer also 107-run stand with bowling all-round- Blue.
Wednesday. lauded Rohit for the fight he put up. er Axar Patel (56) for the fifth wick- Now in 38 matches, across 34 in-
BCCI, the country’s governing “Congratulations @BCBtigers et. After these two batters were dis- nings, Iyer has scored 1,534 runs at
body of the sport, took to social me- on an impressive series win. Both missed, Bangladesh seemed to have an average of 49.48. He has scored
dia to laud the skipper for stepping the games they found themselves in made a comeback in the game. two centuries and 14 half-centuries
in during time of crisis despite his tough spots yet both the games they However, skipper Rohit came in his ODI career so far, with the best
injury. “Gets hit Comes back for the showed the cricketing smarts, and down the order with an injured thumb score of 113*.
team Walks in at No.9 in a run-chase composure to achieve the wins and and almost stole the game from Ban- He has overtaken opener KL
Scores 51*(28) to get us close to the @ImRo45 respect for fighting till the gladesh, smashing an unbeaten 51 Rahul, who reached the 1,500-run
target Take a bow captain! #Team- end #BANvIND,” tweeted Jaffer. off 28 balls with three fours and five mark in 36 innings, followed by Vi-
India | #BANvIND | @ImRo45,” Former Indian spinner Amit sixes. But a maiden 48th over played rat Kohli and Shikhar Dhawan, who
tweeted BCCI. Mishra also lauded Rohit, noting that by Mohammed Siraj and bowled by reached the landmark in 38 innings.
Rohit’s Indian Premier League it takes “immense courage” to play Mustafizur Rahman boosted Bangla- This year in 16 matches, Iyer has
(IPL) franchise Mumbai Indians also the way Rohit did despite the injury. desh’s chances of winning. However, scored 721 runs in 14 innings across
took to Twitter to laud Rohit for his “It takes immense courage and Rohit carried on with his carnage, but 16 matches at an average of 60.08,
effort. “Fought through pain. RE- strength to do what Indian skipper Mustafizur held his nerves to defend with one century and six fifties. His
SPECT #OneFamily #BANvIND@ did today.. Well played Rohit and 20 runs in the last over to pull off a best individual score is 113*.
ImRo45,” tweeted MI’s official han- Congratulations Bangladesh. #Ban- memorable win. He is the highest-run scorer in
dle. vsInd,” tweeted Mishra. ODIs this year among the Test-play-
Even the star Indian T20 batter Bangladesh now has an unassail- Shreyas becomes fastest ing nations. MG Erasmus of Namib-
and Rohit’s MI teammate Suryaku- able lead of 2-0 in the series. Indian to reach 1,500 ODI runs ia has scored the highest number of
mar Yadav, was in awe of the skip- Opting to bat first, Bangladesh runs in ODIs this year, having made
per’s determination and commit- was off to a bad start and were re- ndian middle-order batter 956 runs in 21 matches, in 20 innings
ment. “Massive Respect bro @ duced to 69/6. From that point, Me- Shreyas Iyer continues to main- at an average of over 56, with one
ImRo45 #BANvsIND,” tweeted hidy Hasan Miraz (100*) and Mah- Itain an unreal level of consistency century and eight fifties. Overall,
Suryakumar. mudullah (77) put a match-winning and break records, becoming the fast- Iyer is the sixth-highest run-scorer in
Indian spinner Yuzvendra Cha- stand of 148 runs for the seventh est Indian batter to score 1,500 runs ODIs in 2022.
hal also lauded Rohit for his superhu- wicket that powered their side to in ODI cricket. The batter is leading India’s bat-
man effort that almost won India the 271/7 in their 50 overs. Iyer accomplished this feat ting charts in ODIs in 2022. Shikhar
match. “Massive respect @ImRo45 Washington Sundar (3/37) was during India’s second ODI against Dhawan (685 in 21 innings), Shub-
bhaiya,” tweeted Chahal. the pick of the bowlers for India. Mo- Bangladesh at Dhaka on Wednesday. man Gill (638 in 12 innings) are two
Former Indian all-rounder Ir- hammed Siraj and Umran Malik also The stylish batter continued his gold- of his closest rivals from his country
fan Pathan also praised Rohit for his took two wickets. en run, scoring 82 off 102 balls with this year.

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