Steve Smith Gets An Injury Scare Ahead Of The Opening T20I In Ranchi

Oct 5, 2017 at 8:01 PM

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Steve Smith Gets An Injury Scare Ahead Of The Opening T20I In Ranchi

After losing the ODI series by a 1-4 margin as predicted by former Indian middle-order batsman VVS Laxman, the Australian team were jolted with a massive scare ahead of the opening T20I as captain Steve Smith suffered a minor shoulder injury during a practise session in Ranchi on Thursday. It was a minor scare, and as of now, the Aussie skipper will be taking the field for the opening T20I scheduled to be played on Saturday at MS Dhoni’s home ground.

Smith, who loves playing against India and scoring bulk of runs, was rushed to a local private hospital for a check-up where he also underwent an MRI scan. However, the whole Australian team and the management was delighted and took a sigh of relief after the unorthodox batsman was cleared to take part in the first T20I by the doctors.

The ODI World Champions would look to restore some of their lost pride in the T20I’s after losing the ODI series by a 4-1 margin. It won’t be an easy task for the Aussies to beat the Men in Blue as the latter have looked in the sensational form off late and will be looking to rise to No. 1 even in the T20I rankings after leading the charts in both ODI’s and Tests.

The visitors have a strong squad, and a comeback cannot be ruled out given the character of the team. Smith has to lead from the front, and the bowlers need to step up from stopping the star-studded Indian batsmen from going mayhem.

Squads: 

India: Virat Kohli (Captain), Rohit Sharma (vice-captain), Shikhar Dhawan, KL Rahul, Manish Pandey, Kedar Jadhav, Dinesh Karthik, MS Dhoni (wk), Hardik Pandya, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ashish Nehra, Axar Patel.

Australia: Steve Smith (C), David Warner (VC), Jason Behrendorff, Dan Christian, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Patrick Cummins, Aaron Finch, Travis Head, Moises Henriques, Glenn Maxwell, Tim Paine, Kane Richardson, Adam Zampa

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