Star Yet To Join Indian Cricket Team For South Africa T20I Series As “Family Member Needed Urgent hospitalisation” | Cricket News

Senior seamer Deepak Chahar stays a uncertain participant for India’s remaining two T20 Internationals in opposition to South Africa as he’s but to hitch the squad as a consequence of private causes. It is known that Chahar is at present at house as an in depth member of the family has not been preserving properly and he urgently wanted a break from the game. Chahar, in actual fact, missed the fifth and ultimate T20I in opposition to Australia in Bengaluru, final Sunday, as he needed to rush again house after being intimated concerning the member of the family’s sickness.

“Deepak hasn’t yet joined the team in Durban as a close family member needed urgent hospitalisation. He had taken permission for a break as he needed to attend to his family member.

“He might or might not be part of the squad relying on his member of the family’s well being in coming days,” a senior BCCI official told PTI on condition of anonymity.

The BCCI top brass understands that Chahar might not be in the best frame of mind till the family member fully recovers and hence if he doesn’t wish to join the team now, he would be excused.

The 31-year-old Rajasthan veteran boasts best figures of 6/7 in a T20 International and his prolonged absence due to injury did affect the T20 squad’s balance in the past two years.

With his incisive swing bowling in Powerplay overs, Chahar is an integral part of the T20I squad and the team management would like him to get as much game time as possible.

However, there remains a possibility that Chahar, who is also part of the ODI squad, will join the team during the second phase of the white ball-leg of the ongoing tour to SA.

However, the other two members of the T20I squad, Shubman Gill and vice-captain Ravindra Jadeja, who were holidaying abroad after the World Cup final have directly linked up with the squad in Durban and attended the practice sessions.

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