GILL Health Update: Missed the World Cup 2023 match against Afghanistan

GILL Health Update: After suffering from dengue and being ruled out of the opening match against Australia in Chennai, Shubman Gill will also miss India’s second World Cup match against Afghanistan in Delhi on Wednesday.

The BCCI said that Gill will not travel with the team to Delhi and will “remain in Chennai and will be under the observation of the medical team”.

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Shubman Gill will miss India’s second World Cup match

Two days before the Australia game, head coach Rahul Dravid said, “He (Gill) is definitely feeling better today than yesterday, so that’s positive, but the medical team is monitoring him on a day-to-day basis.” We have 36 hours to go, so we’ll see how it goes. We’ll probably wait until the last minute to make a decision.”

But Gill could not recover in time. “We waited till this morning and he couldn’t recover,” Rohit Sharma said during the toss against Australia.

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In the absence of Gill, Ishan Kishan started the innings with Rohit

In the absence of Gill, Ishan Kishan started the innings with Rohit. Although chasing the target of 200, India were 2 for 3 – Kishan, Rohit, and Shreyas Iyer were out for a duck – but they achieved the target with six wickets in hand and 52 balls to spare.

Gill is the highest run-scorer in ODIs

Gill is the highest run-scorer in ODIs this year with 1230 runs at an average of 72.35 and a strike rate of 105.03. In his last four ODI matches, he has scored two centuries and one half-century.

After their game against Afghanistan on October 11, India will travel from Delhi to Ahmedabad for the match against Pakistan on October 14.