Ishant Sharma was a mainstay in the Indian team for many years, particularly in Test cricket. He played a stellar role in India’s 2013 Champions Trophy win, Ishant’s career saw a steady decline since then. Ishant has now revealed that his efforts in the 2014 Melbourne Test may have contributed to him not featuring in that tournament.

Ishant told social media influencer Ranveer Allahbadia on the latter’s Youtube channel –

“My pain threshold is very high. I missed the 2015 World Cup because of this. We were playing a Test series (in Australia). It was Mahi bhai’s (MS Dhoni’s) last Test match and I suddenly had pain in my knee.” While Ishant last played a Test in November 2021, his last ODI match came in January 2016.

Ishant added – “(Mohammed) Shami and Umesh (Yadav) were bowling and (Ravichandran) Ashwin was the third (bowler). I saw that they were also tired and thought, ‘How long will they bowl?’ So I told my physio, ‘Please call a doctor and get me an injection. I was taking an injection every session.”

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Ishant further added –

“We bowled five sessions and I took six injections. Because I could not see that my team was losing because of me. It ultimately proved to be harmful. Duncan Fletcher was our coach at that time. He used to say, ‘Don’t take the injections, the World Cup is coming up.’ But I told him the same thing, ‘I feel like I am cheating the team (if I am not bowling).’”