Veteran batter Hanuma Vihari drew loads of plaudits for his courageous resolution to bat with a fractured wrist within the Ranji Trophy quarter-final between Andhra Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Vihari, who’s primarily a right-hander, even needed to bat left-handed, utilizing one hand, with a purpose to shield the injured wrist. Though there have been many who lauded the batter for his braveness, a couple of questioned the choice too because it might’ve been career-threatening. Even the crew physio had warned Vihari in opposition to taking this step however the batter was decided to exit and rating some essential runs for his crew.

Vihari fractured his left wrist whereas dealing with a brief supply from pacer Avesh Khan in Andhra’s first innings of the match. He obtained medical help earlier than returning to the pitch, scoring some necessary runs for the tenth wicket.

Do it for the crew. Do it for the bunch.
Never surrender!!
Thank you everybody on your needs. Means quite a bit!! pic.twitter.com/sFPbHxKpnZ

— Hanuma vihari (@Hanumavihari) February 1, 2023

When requested by Aakash Chopra about his resolution to bat on the Aakashvani present on JioCinema, Vihari stated: “When I said that I wanted to bat, the physio told me 10 times that my career might be at risk if I am hit on the hand again while batting. I told the physio that there is no problem if I don’t play cricket after this match but if I give up for Andhra in this match, it will be in my heart forever.”

“I was devastated because it was a quarterfinal match, such an important match for Andhra and I was not able to bat. I thought it would be an advantage even if I could add 10-15 runs for the team for the last wicket and I took that decision. If you have to do it for the team, you get the courage,” he added.

During the present, Vihari was additionally requested in regards to the lack of alternatives within the Indian Test crew, the batter admits that there can be some ‘disappointment’.

“Obviously there will be some disappointment but my job will be to score more runs in domestic cricket and I will try to do that to make a comeback. I have the confidence that if I score big runs for one or two seasons in domestic cricket and win matches for my team, I will again get the chance to prove myself for India.”

“I can do much better abroad as well. In whatever I have played abroad in my career, probably my performance wasn’t good enough to sustain my place in the XI. So I will look at my own performance rather than thinking whether this or that happened with me and I was dropped,” he asserted.

In 16 Tests for India, Vihari has to this point aggregated 839 runs at a median of 33.56.

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