Overview
- PTI-cited reports indicate Hardik Pandya, recovering from a quadriceps injury, is unlikely to play the three-match ODI series starting November 30.
- Team doctors plan his return through T20s, with match fitness to be proven for Baroda in the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy before international T20Is.
- Jasprit Bumrah is likely to be rested from the ODIs as part of workload management, according to the same reports.
- Pandya has been following Return-to-Play protocols at the BCCI Centre of Excellence after missing the Australia tour and the Asia Cup final.
- The ODIs run through December 6 before five T20Is from December 9 to 19, which the board views as more relevant ahead of the next T20 World Cup.