Thiruvananthapuram, Sept. 25 -- Indian skipper Shubman Gill on Friday suffered an injury scare when pacer Mohammad Siraj's rising delivery pinged on his elbow during nets.
Gill, who appeared to be in considerable pain, needed an extended period of nearly 20 minutes of medical attention.
The right-hander eventually returned to the nets to face throw downs before India wound up the session. A few minutes early, veterans Virat Kohli, who missed India's last ODI assignment against Afghanistan, and Rohit Sharma batted together at adjacent nets.
The batting stalwarts looked fluent during a nearly 20 minutes batting session where they faced motley bowling crew made up of Indian colleagues and local net bowlers.
Bowling coach Morne Morkel was thrilled to see the amount of experience and conversation between the players going around in the dressing room.
"I must say that Shubhman has done an exceptional job so far leading the team.
But I'm always a big believer in your senior players and how they shape the team.
I think different players in the team will feel more comfortable speaking to a certain senior individual.
"And we're quite fortunate that we've got a lot of experience and conversations,
and that can only be great for the team. So, yeah, we're quite fortunate that we've got that experience with the
senior players."
"For us, it's just to keep on challenging the guys to have the conversation with the senior guys.
We always throw up as many questions as possible in team meetings for the senior guys to speak and to share their experience.
Published by HT Digital Content Services with permission from Millennium Post.