Virat Kohli's 1130-day rare streak ends with a knee injury, increases concerns for India ahead of the Champions Trophy.

From this moment onwards, India captain Rohit Sharma announced that Virat Kohli would recall 1 ODI against England in Nagpur on Thursday, increasing concern among Indian fans with the Champions Trophy. The BCCI said in an official update that Kohli was unavailable for selection in the first ODI due to the first one -day knee in Nagpur. Injuries have been a rareness for Virat Kohli, a bench mark in terms of fitness. In fact, this is the first time that Kohli has missed a match due to injury after India testing in South Africa vs India Test Johannesburg (January 3-6, 2022). This for the first time in 1130 days makes Kohli missed a match due to injury.

Beyond that match against South Africa, Kohli missed the second Test against South Africa due to an upper back cramps.

However, injuries before the first ODI against England on Thursday by senior batter Virat Kohli may be a minor blow to India as the injury does not seem serious and the former captain of India is likely to return to the next match.

The Kohi was on the field with his comrades immediately after arriving at the stadium, heated to the first ODI, although with a strapping or knee on his right knee. This proves that the injury is not very serious and may not need to remember more matches.

In the morning, there were some unconfirmed reports that all -rounder Hardik Pandya was rushed to the hospital on Wednesday night when he complained of stomach ache. However, the Indian team management did not confirm anything. Finally, Pandya was included in the squad, and it was Kohli that had to sit outside.

With Kohli unavailable to the selection of Kohli, the team management decided to hand over Yashsvi Jaiswal with a young one-day cap as well as pace-bouling all-rounder Harshit Rana, while Mohammad Shami did his one in the one-day team after the 2023 World Cup Return.

Earlier, there were hopes that spinner Varun Chakraborty could get his ODI starting after being drafted in a late squad after his superb bowling in the T20I series, in which he named the Player of the Series with 14 wickets It was given, which included a Fifer, in the third match in Rajkot.

In his pre-match press conference, skipper Rohit indicated that Chakravarti would play one of the matches as the team management was really impressed by his bowling in T20I, causing the leg-spinner to the upcoming Champions Trophy for the upcoming Champions Trophy. Went.

But in the end, it was not, and Chakravarti would have to wait for his ODI as because India decided to hand over the first cap to Harshit Rana.

With IANS input