BCCI cannot interfere over player fitness during IPL: Saikia

Devajit Saikia, the BCCI secretary, has conceded that the BCCI cannot interfere with the IPL franchises’ fittingness appraisal of a BCCI-contracted subordinate during the T20 extravaganza.

“As acold arsenic the IPL is concerned, the franchises instrumentality attraction of the injuries and the fittingness of the players. Of course, our physios from the Centre of Excellence are besides monitoring them. They are giving them the workload arsenic good arsenic the program for however to support them fit, truthful monitoring is there, but we cannot interfere excessively overmuch erstwhile the IPL is going on,” Saikia said successful Mumbai connected Tuesday (May 19, 2026) aft the announcement of India’s squad for the location bid against Afghanistan.

“Had it been the Indian team, our power would person been more. Now, we are giving that state to the franchises that instrumentality calls connected their players, and we decidedly look into their fittingness level erstwhile it comes to selecting the nationalist team.”

Varun Chakaravarthy is reportedly bowling successful the IPL contempt having fractured his toe. There has been a batch of ambiguity implicit whether Arshdeep Singh has been carrying a niggle. And Rohit Sharma and Hardik Pandya person been selected taxable to fittingness clearance by the BCCI.

“Sometimes a subordinate knows whether helium tin play done it oregon not. I won’t beryllium capable to archer you sitting present whether they are playing done niggles oregon not. You surely privation them acceptable erstwhile they correspond the nationalist team. But that’s an country of expertise for the trainers and the physios who benignant of springiness maine the feedback of wherever a subordinate is at,” main selector Ajit Agarkar said.

“I americium not an adept successful that area. If they archer maine a definite feline is fit, I person to spot that idiosyncratic erstwhile we prime them. And possibly successful 2 weeks, if we are told that those 2 guys [Rohit and Hardik] haven’t rather made it fitness-wise, we volition instrumentality a telephone accordingly. But astatine this point, I’ve been told that they are connected way and we volition possibly measure it. Whether they person been playing with something, I americium not sure. I spell by what the physio tells me, and I person afloat religion successful them”.