Bengaluru: Indian batsman Rohit Sharma has said that he’s making a strong recovery after sustaining a hamstring injury.
The Mumbai Indians skipper suffered a hamstring injury during the Indian Premier League(IPL) 2020 while playing a match against Kings XI Punjab in the UAE.
While the Indian team has already reached Australia and is in quarantine in Sydney, Rohit Sharma has started his fitness training at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) in Bengaluru.
“Hamstring is feeling absolutely fine. Just started the process of getting it nice and strong. Before I play the longer format, I absolutely needed to be clear in mind that there is no stone that is left unturned. That’s probably the reason, I’m at the NCA,” Rohit was quoted as saying to PTI.
He also said that he needed approximately three weeks to work on his hamstring ahead of the Australia tour.
“Of course, there is still some work that needs to be done on my hamstring. That’s why I didn’t go to Australia for the white-ball leg as there are back-to-back games. Around 6 games in 11 days, so I thought if I get to work on my body for 25 days, I can probably go and play the Test matches. So it was an easy decision for me and I don’t know why it became so complicated for others,” he said.
The 33-year-old also reacted to all the outside chatter regarding his injury and his subsequent participation in the IPL playoffs and said it didn’t matter much for him. Unless one goes to the ground, one won’t know how the body is shaping up he added.
” I don’t know what was going on, to be honest, and what all were people talking about. But let me put this on record, I was constantly communicating with the BCCI and
Mumbai Indians, so for me, it was not a concern what x, y or z was talking about, like whether he would make it to Australia.”
“Once the injury happened, the next two days all I did was to figure out what I can do in the next 10 days – whether I will be able to play or not,” Rohit said.
