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Star all-rounder Hardik Pandya and elder batter Rohit Sharma person been cleared by the Sports Science squad of BCCI’s Centre of Excellence to enactment successful the upcoming three-match ODI bid against Afghanistan starting connected Sunday (June 14, 2026) successful Dharamsala.
Both Pandya and Rohit missed rather a fewer IPL matches for Mumbai Indians owed to their respective issues. While Pandya was battling backmost spasms, Rohit had a hamstring niggle. Hardik has been astatine the CoE successful Bengaluru since June 2.
“Hardik was connected a vacation overseas earlier helium checked successful astatine the CoE connected June 2. Over the adjacent 5 days, helium did respective lucifer simulations and adjacent bowled (full quota of) 10 overs,” a BCCI root told PTI.
“There has been nary discomfort and the accusation is that his fittingness information for assorted parameters has been okayed by Strength and Conditioning coaches astatine the CoE,” the root added.
Former skipper Rohit was besides astatine the CoE to measure his hamstring niggle and helium excessively has been fixed the spell up aft an examination.
On Monday (June 8, 2026), India’s adjunct manager Sitanshu Kotak had said that though helium doesn’t person an update connected Pandya’s fittingness status, helium believed the all-rounder was doing fine.
Pandya is an important cog successful India’s achromatic shot acceptable up fixed the equilibrium helium lends to the broadside with his gait bowling and lusty hits during the decease overs.
The astir relieving facet is that Pandya is bowling 10 overs successful grooming league which means that helium is acceptable for the rigours of 50-over cricket.
It is, however, not wide whether Pandya volition articulation with the squad successful Chandigarh for a grooming league nether lights oregon straight nexus up successful Dharamsala which was the archetypal plan.
Star batter Virat Kohli is already missing the bid owing to a hamstring injury. Apart from Dharamsala, the rubber features games successful Lucknow and Chennai connected June 17 and June 20 respectively.
