Shreyas Iyer Cites Injury To Miss Ranji Trophy Game. NCA Provides Contradicting Update: Report | Cricket News

Indian cricket crew batter Shreyas Iyer made himself unavailable for Mumbai’s Ranji Trophy quarterfinals citing harm considerations however the National Cricket Academy (NCA) has mentioned that he has no ‘recent accidents’, based on a report by Indian Express. The report cited an e mail from Nitin Patel, the pinnacle of sports activities science and drugs on the NCA, who instructed selectors that Iyer was ‘match’. It additionally quoted Mumbai Cricket Association sources saying that Iyer had cited again ache as the rationale behind lacking the Ranji Trophy quarterfinal match towards Baroda which can start on Friday.

“Shreyas Iyer was fit and available for selection as per the handover report of the Indian team after the 2nd Test match against England. There are currently no fresh injuries reported as well after his departure from Team India,” Patel wrote in his email according to the report.

Earlier, BCCI Secretary Jay Shah made it clear that all centrally contracted cricketers will have to mandatorily play red-ball cricket in the domestic circuit and the management will not tolerate any kind of excuses in the matter.

While interacting with the reporters at the sidelines of the renaming ceremony of the Saurashtra Cricket Association Stadium, Shah pointed out that all players will have to represent their state teams if called upon by coach or captain.

The statement came amidst the controversy surrounding Ishan Kishan and reports that suggest that BCCI has asked him to play for Jharkhand in Ranji Trophy.

Shah mentioned Kishan during the interaction but quickly added that the announcement was not targeted towards him and this rule will apply for all cricketers who are not part of the national team.

“All contracted players have been told on phone and I’ll be writing to them too. If chairman of selectors, coach & captain want you to play red-ball cricket then you gotta play. ‘Nakhre Nahi Chalenge‘ (no tantrums). And as far as Ishan Kishan is concerned, he is young, I am not saying this specifically about him as it will be applicable for all the players uniformly,” Jay Shah told reporters.

“Everyone must play, in any other case, the chairman of the choice committee has given me his recommendations and I’m going to provide him a free hand to let him take his personal calls freely,” he added.

(With PTI inputs)