This caused him to miss his team’s home match against Lucknow Super Giants and a decision on his participation in Raipur will likely be taken closer to the match, as the franchise did in this case. Rohit Sharma Joe missed nearly a month of competitive cricket due to a hamstring injury. It was further understood that there is no need to panic. Even if he misses the RCB match, the thinktank expects him to be on the park wearing the captain’s armband for the next matches.

Suryakumar Yadav It is doubtful whether RCB will play the match.

Pandya was not the only absentee as Suryakumar Yadav was among the players who traveled on Wednesday. Jasprit BumrahTilak Verma, Quinton de Kock and some other foreign players also did not travel.Traveling in batches was always the plan as the five-time champions had a long break between fixtures and wanted to allow their players to recharge their batteries before the next challenge. Apart from Pandya, there is suspense over Suryakumar Yadav’s participation in the next match as the right-handed batsman may not attend it due to personal reasons. Rohit Sharma traveled with the first batch on Wednesday and will look to regain full match fitness ahead of the big match against RCB.