IND vs AUS: Rohit Sharma reacts to team India's injury woes: 'It is concerning'

Ind vs Aus: After enduring defeat at hands of Australia in 3rd ODI, Indian captain Rohit Sharma appeared in front of media to answer questions related to what transpired on field. From pitch to Suryakumar Yadav's triple golden duck in series, Sharma addressed a variety of topics during presser and when asked to comment on team India's injury woes, skipper was quick to say that situation is "concerning". Jasprit Bumrah, Rishabh Pant and Shreyas Iyer were prominent misses from 3-match ODI series against Australia.

“It is concerning. We are missing players who are actually playing XI players. Honestly, everyone’s trying ir best to get everyone on park. We’ve been focusing a lot on manment of players, which is why we have to rest certain players at certain point of time."

“From our side, we could do our best in terms of handling m." Rohit continued, "But, I am t a specialist to tell you why recurring injuries are happening. medical team of ours is looking into all of this and making sure that, come World Cup, we’ve got our best 15 players ready,” said Rohit.

Rohit Sharma also said that Injuries are something that are inevitable, and team does t pay much heed to what's out of ir control. “t looking too much into it. What’s in your hands, you can control that and we are just trying to control all of that. Players are frustrated as well. y want to play; y don’t want to miss out. It’s a little sad, but at end of day you cant really do too much."

“Freakish injuries can happen at any point of time. Shreyas was sitting whole day. He just went to take a kck and injury happened,” said Rohit.

India vs Australia 3rd ODI: Match Summary

After winning toss, Steve Smith decided to bat first. Australia got off to a good start as openers Travis Head and Mitchell Marsh laid a solid foundation at top. pair added 68 runs before Head held out playing an upper cut to Hardik Pandya. Head's wicket brought captain Smith on crease, who got out without troubling scoreboard. n Marsh also fell and Australia suddenly were in a spot of bor. returning David Warner and Marnus Labuschagne started recovery but at score of 125 Kuldeep Yadav removed Warner. wickets continued to fall at regular intervals but Australia's lower order comprising of Marcus Stoinis, Sean Abbott, and Ashton Agar, all chipped in to give India a target of 270.

Much like Australia, India also got to a good start, openers Shubman Gill and Rohit Sharma fired at top to take India past 50 quickly. India lost first wicket in form of Rohit Sharma at score of 65. After a dozen more to total, Gill also got out. At 77 for 2 Virat Kohli and KL Rahul got toger. two added 69 for fourth wicket before KL Rahul got dismissed. After Rahul's wicket, India lost its way and were reeling at 185 for 6 when Suryakumar Yadav got out to a third successive golden duck. partnership between Ravindra Jadeja and Hardik Pandya was threatening to take game away from Australia but Zampa removed both of m. In end, India bundled out at 248, losing by 21 runs. Adam Zampa became player of match for his incredible bowling spell of 4 for 48.