Apologize to all cricket fans and BCCI: MD Shami

By Sandy Verma On Oct 28, 2024

�NEW DELHINew Delhi: Indian cricket team's fast bowler Mohammed Shami reacted on social media after not being selected for the upcoming Test series against Australia. Shami has been missing from the field since the final of the ODI World Cup 2023 after suffering an ankle injury in November. The fast bowler underwent surgery and completed his rehabilitation at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) before his comeback was derailed by swelling in his knees. Shami recently said that he no longer has pain in his knees, but the selectors decided not to include him for the much-awaited series. Shami posted a video of his training on Instagram, with which he wrote – “Putting in my efforts and improving my bowling fitness day by day.

I will continue to work hard to prepare for the matches and play domestic red ball cricket. Sorry to all the cricket fans and BCCI, but very soon I am ready to play red ball cricket, love you all”. Australia head coach Andrew McDonald has admitted that Mohammed Shami's absence is a big loss for India. , but he said his team will not take lightly the fast bowlers who replace them during the all-important Border-Gavaskar Trophy series starting in Perth from November 22, citing the visitors' Gabba Test win in 2021.

Shami has been out of action since last year's ODI World Cup in India due to an Achilles injury, which required surgery this year. But there is a possibility that Shami may join the Indian team for the second part of the Australia tour, provided he proves his fitness and readiness in Bengal's last two Ranji Trophy matches in Bengaluru and Indore respectively. India has won the Border-Gavaskar Trophy last two times in Australia, in 2018/19 and 2020/21 respectively. “Mohammed Shami is a big loss. The way our batsmen talk about his relentless nature, his line and length, the way he works, he is a great complementary skill to Bumrah, so feels like he will be missing a bit in the one-two combination. , and they will miss it.

“But needless to say, we saw what happened last time, they had reserve players who came in and did a good job, so don't underestimate them at all,” McDonald said on ABC TV's Offsiders show on Sunday. May go.” He also said that Australia will have no problem playing teenage opener Sam Konstas in the Test matches against India if the George Bailey-led selection committee feels he fits into their best playing XI. Constas, who has played just six first-class matches, scored two centuries in the Sheffield Shield for New South Wales this month and scored 43 in a defeat to Victoria on the sticky track of the Melbourne Cricket Ground.