Shubman Gill Is Suffering From Dengue, He Could Miss The First Match Against Australia

Cricket World Cup 2023 has started. Cricket started at Narendra Modi Cricket Stadium. The two finalists of the 2019 World Cup, England and New Zealand, met in the opening match. New Zealand snatched victory in the first match. Despite being the host team India could not play the first match. The Indian team is going to play the first match against Australia on October 8. The two teams recently played a series against each other, where Team India defeated Australia by a margin of 2-1. Shubman Gill was the hero of India’s win. The young batsman got the chance to play only the first two matches in the series.

However, he was rested in the last match of the series with the World Cup in mind. Gill is currently in great form, this batsman of the Indian team became the highest run scorer of the tournament in Asia Cup 2023 and became the only batsman to cross the 300 mark. After that, he made 178 runs in the Australia series with a hundred and the same half-century. However, on the eve of the World Cup, a big update came out.

According to sources, Gill is infected with dengue. Team India is going to play the first match of the World Cup against Australia on the 8th, if the physical condition does not change in time, Shubman Gill will not be seen in the first match of the tournament.

Indian Squad For World Cup 2023

Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran Ashwin, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Ishan Kishan, Surya Kumar Yadav.