'I'm not a specialist to tell you..': Rohit Sharma addresses India's injury woes

Team India have been ravaged by injuries to several regulars throughout the year yet captain Rohit Sharma suspects any player will opt out of the IPL games to manage workload when the highprofile T20 league begins on March 31From Jasprit Bumrah to Shreyas Iyer injury woes surrounding the Indian unit have become an area of concern for the team management Sharma feels the onus lies on each IPL team owners and players themselves to handle workload ahead of the ODI World Cup scheduled to be held in OctoberNovemberIt is concerning We are missing the players who are actually the playing XI players Rohit told the media after India lost the third ODI against Australia by 21 runs on WednesdayThey players are all adults So they have to look after their body and just if they feel that its getting a little too much they can always talk about it and have a break in one or two games I doubt if that will happen but he further saidAlso ReadIPL 2023 Grit glory and grandeur A tournament like no otherThe Men in Blue will get little over a week to gear up for the World Test Championships final to be played at the Oval in London from June 7 following the IPL Sharma revealed that the team management has given lsquoindicationsrsquo to all franchise owners about smooth workload management of the players keeping the World Cup in mindIts all up to the franchises now The franchises own them the players now so weve given some indications or some kind of borderline kind of thing to the teams At the end of the day its up to the franchise and most importantly its the players they have to take care of their own bodyHonestly everyone is trying their best to get everyone on the park Weve been focusing a lot on management of the players which is why we have to rest certain players at certain points of time the captain saidFrom our side we could do our best in terms of handling them But I am not a specialist to tell you why recurring injuries are happening The medical team of ours is looking into all of this and making sure that come the World Cup weve got our best 15 players readyAlso Read IND vs AUS Mitch the starc differenceTeam India have missed the services of Bumrah for the entire bilateral series against Australia Iyerrsquos recurring back injury has forever been a cause of worry for the side The righthanded batter initially felt discomfort on his lower back last December and was ruled out of the ODI series against New Zealand at home and the opening Test against AustraliaIyer who leads Kolkata Knight Riders in the IPL is also likely to miss some games due to the recurring injury Obviously when you play so much cricket injuries are bound to happen So not looking too much into it whats available to you whats in your hand you can control that and we are just trying to control all of that Players are frustrated as well They want to play they dont want to miss out So its a little sad but at the end of the day you cannot really do too muchrdquo Rohit saidAdding further that the medical team is leaving no stone unturned to ensure the well being of the players he stated I can see and I can vouch for it that the people working behind the scenes are working really hard with all these players and freakish injury can happen at any point in time like Shreyas Iyer was the best example He was sitting the whole day and he just went to take a knock and the injury happened to him And theres nothing you could do about it the only thing we can keep in mind is managing players and giving them enough breaks And I think from our side were doing that