Ruturaj Gaikwad got injured after being hit by a ball in his helmet, had to retire hurt in the match against Sri Lanka A

By Sandy Verma On Jul 4, 2026

Ruturaj Gaikwad Injury: Star batsman Rituraj Gaikwad has got injured while playing for India A. While batting in the second unofficial test match against Sri Lanka A, he was playing on the score of 13 runs. Lankan fast bowler Asanka Manoj’s bounced ball went straight to his helmet, after which he retired hurt and walked out of the field. No latest update has come out regarding his injury. Fans hope that he will soon recover from this injury and return to the field again.

Ruturaj Gaikwad retired hurt after scoring 13(42)* against SL A test match
– Ruturaj Gaikwad has retired hurt after taking a blow to the head from Sri Lankan fast bowler Asanka Manoj.
Hope the injury is not serious 😔🙏 pic.twitter.com/38ThJjgfRw
— Kartik Sharma (@KartikSharmaFC) July 4, 2026

Runs are not coming from bat in test series

Rituraj Gaikwad had scored a lot of runs in the tri-series against Sri Lanka and Afghanistan but now his bat seems silent in the Test. He had scored 23 runs in two innings of the first test match. In the first innings he was able to score 22 runs whereas in the second innings he was able to score only one run. If we look at his statistics in first class, he looks very good. He has scored 3281 runs in 78 innings of 46 matches played so far. During this period his average has been 44.33. He has scored 9 centuries and 17 half-centuries.

Team India’s best batting

India A batsmen have performed amazingly in this series against Sri Lanka A. After the first match, the dominance of Indian batsmen was seen in the second match also. Sai Sudarshan scored his second consecutive century. He played a brilliant inning of 168 runs in 267 balls. Apart from this, Devdutt Padikkal has also contributed 91 runs in the first innings. Till the time of writing the news, Team India has scored 534 runs after losing 5 wickets in the third session. The pair of Saransh Jain and Aaqib Nabi is batting for the team.

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