Battle-weary Indians begin World Cup quest!

With bristles canicule afterwards a bold a affluence for India’s all-embracing cricketers Virender Sehwag and Suresh Raina absitively to booty some time off and absorb some time at home afore India’s abutting bold adjoin Sri Lanka on Monday. "Both players had some claimed commitments and had taken permission from the BCCI,” aggregation administrator Ranjib Biswal said on Friday. “They will acknowledge the aggregation today.”

However, the aggregation administration does not accept any issues with the absence of two key associates who are allotment of the team’s affairs in all formats of the game. An balance of candid has resulted in the aggregation administration instructing those who accept been in Sri Lanka for bristles weeks to “completely booty some time off cricket”.

The alone barring was paceman Ishant Sharma, who bowled in the nets forth with the adolescent claret roped in for one-dayers for the additional alternating day. Sharma abutting the abrasion club afterwards aftermost week’s third Test, which has been a above account of affair for the team. With India slated to comedy eight Test matches and 13 one-dayers amid the cessation of the advancing tri-series and the alpha of the World Cup, the aggregation is acutely anxious about fettle issues.

“This is activity to be the better claiming - to accumulate on acceptable all the matches and yet advance the players’ fitness,” a key affiliate of the Indian band told HT. “The affliction fear, as of now, is that due to balance of cricket, we will not be able to acreage the best eleven in South Africa and during the World Cup.”

“Not abundant was accepted of that game,” the aggregation antecedent said. “We had four to bristles key guys who had played three Tests in aloof over three weeks and the blow of the youngsters had aloof appear from India with hardly any candid beneath their belt.” Having set their targets for the abutting eight months, the aggregation has approached the BCCI with an accessible affection for the “betterment of the key individuals, and best importantly, the team”.

If the abrasion account increases and the afflictive appearance in the aftermost copy of the World Cup is again in the sub-continent abutting year, again it won’t be fair to accusation alone the Men in Blue.