South Africa vs India: Should we cancel the tour? Aakash Chopra on IND damage issues forward of Test collection

Aakash Chopra expressed issues over the a number of damage issues within the Indian camp and mentioned that Rohit Sharma would be the greatest miss within the Test collection in South Africa this month. Rohit Sharma and Ravindra Jadeja can be two key gamers that India will miss within the South Africa Tests (AFP Photo)HIGHLIGHTSIndia’s tour of South Africa will start with the Test collection in Centurion on December 26 and the ODIs from January 19Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel are out injured from the TestsTest captain Virat Kohli is ready to overlook the 3-match ODI collection attributable to private reasonsFormer cricketer-turned-commentator Aakash Chopra raised a number of questions on India’s preparations and group mixture amid the spate of accidents within the Test group forward of their tour of South Africa.

India misplaced Test vice-captain Rohit Sharma to a hamstring damage on Monday whereas Shubman Gill (shin), Ravindra Jadeja (ligament tear) and Axar Patel (stress fracture) will even be lacking from the Test collection attributable to their respective accidents.Looking on the present state of affairs of the Indian group, Aakash Chopra questioned whether or not the BCCI ought to cancel the South Africa collection as many of the necessary gamers are out injured.”Ravindra Jadeja unavailable, Axar Patel unavailable, Rahul Chahar unavailable, you don’t have Shubman Gill and now they are saying that Rohit Sharma is also not there. I mean what is happening? Should we cancel the South Africa tour?” the 44-year-old mentioned.Chopra went on so as to add that Rohit Sharma would be the greatest miss for India as he has been their finest Test batsman this yr.”Rohit Sharma is going to be a huge miss. If his tour is in doubt, India’s chances are looking in doubt because who was your best Test batter in 2021. Why did you do well in England – Rohit was there with Rahul. Rohit has started loving Test cricket and he is enjoying leaving or defending,” Chopra mentioned.The former Test opener additionally expressed issues over India’s opening mixture and identified the multi-fold issues within the squad proper now because of the accidents.”There are multi-fold problems. Shubman Gill and Mayank Agarwal had opened just now, KL Rahul was injured. I met KL Rahul recently and he said that he will be fine. You will see Mayank Agarwal opening along with him but who will be the third opener now?”We had been saying that it has change into a narrative of 4 or 5 openers and right here Mayank Agarwal has change into the second opener and KL Rahul the primary. And we’ve reached the stage when Mayank Agarwal made his debut, in an area of few weeks. The Indian group turns into considerably weak,” Chopra mentioned.India can be enjoying 3 Tests in South Africa from December 26 which can be adopted by 3 ODIs from January 19. Rohit will miss the Tests however is more likely to be slot in time for the one-day collection which Kohli may skip attributable to private causes.Click right here for IndiaIn the present day.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.