Former Indian opener Aakash Chopra has advised Indian Team management to stop the injury crisis in the camp. In the past year, several Indian players have sustained injuries which have resulted in the team’s poor performance in the major tournaments. Speedster Jasprit Bumrah and allrounder Ravindra Jadeja missed out from the Asia Cup and 20-20 World Cup 2022 where India failed to qualify for the finals of both tournaments.
Recently, Rohit Sharma, Deepak Chahar and Kuldeep Sen have been ruled out of the ongoing ODI series against Bangladesh. The Indian skipper sustained an injury in his thumb while fielding in the second ODI, while injury-prone Chahar hurt his hamstring and Kuldeep complained of stiffness in his back before the second ODI.
Chopra questioned the workload management policy of the Indian team which is not working in their favour in recent times.
“Injuries – I don’t know if they can be controlled. We are saying that we are not playing too much cricket, we are taking breaks repeatedly. If we are taking so many breaks and managing our workload, why are so many injuries happening? Don’t manage your workload if you have so many injuries. That’s the simple question – what is happening? Either we are not managing the workload properly or we are breaking down after that. I don’t have an answer for why so many injuries are happening, can they be stopped? But you will have to stop them,” Chopra said on his YouTube channel.
Injuries have become such a huge concern : Aakash Chopra
“Injuries have become such a huge concern. Jasprit Bumrah was not there, suddenly you felt you need to get in Shami. Before that Harshal got injured. Now Kuldeep Sen and Deepak Chahar are injured and before that Axar Patel was injured. Now Rohit Sharma is also injured, Rahul was injured before that. I mean so many injuries,” Chopra added.
“Jaddu (Jadeja) is injured at the moment. His was an absolutely freak injury but Bumrah played and then again got injured. Deepak Chahar played and then again got injured. About Kuldeep Sen also, I felt the captain said in the post-match interview that they have to look into the fact that when they are coming to play for India, are they fully fit?” Chopra further said.
