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Atharva Ankolekar volition beryllium sidelined for astir 4 to six weeks aft helium tore his meniscus during the Ranji Trophy lucifer betwixt Mumbai and Hyderabad astatine the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium present connected Friday.
The 25-year-old, who was fielding astatine long-on, got injured erstwhile helium slid to prevention a boundary. He fell instantly and was successful disposable pain, and was yet stretchered to the nearest exit gate.
He was successful tears portion helium was dilatory moved to the ambulance, a travel that was made adjacent much hard due to the fact that of a heap of robo soil (manufactured sand) being placed close successful the mediate of the path, on with different operation equipment.
Renovations are presently underway astatine the stadium, undertaken by Sunrisers Hyderabad, up of the upcoming Indian Premier League season.
Earlier, the Mumbai Indians subordinate made a quick-fire 22-ball 35 (5x4, 1x6) arsenic Mumbai posted a mammoth 560 successful the archetypal innings. With BCCI’s wounded replacement rules allowing lone a ‘like-for-like’ replacement, Mumbai volition person to decorativeness the lucifer with conscionable 1 spinner, arsenic the broadside lacks reinforcements.
Atharva himself was a last-minute replacement for left-arm spinner Shams Mulani, who picked up an wounded and had to alert backmost to Mumbai for further tests. Off-spinner Tanush Kotian was besides ruled retired of the ongoing contention aft picking up a manus injury.
