ESPNcricinfo understands Gayakwad examined constructive final month and is presently recovering in Bengaluru
Left-arm spinner Rajeshwari Gayakwad has been disregarded the India Girls’s squads for the tour of England due to an harm she is known to have been carrying throughout the dwelling sequence towards South Africa earlier this 12 months and likewise as a result of she is presently recovering from Covid-19.
ESPNcricinfo understands Gayakwad, who performed simply two matches for the Railways within the Girls’s Senior One Day Trophy 2020-21 after the South Africa sequence, examined constructive for Covid-19 final month and is presently recovering in Bengaluru. Within the home event, she had walked off the sphere within the semi-final towards Bengal with out ending her quota of overs. She didn’t play the last towards Jharkhand on April 4.
No official announcement was made throughout or after the South Africa sequence about Gayakwad carrying the harm. The squad announcement for the England tour didn’t comprise any data regarding Gayakwad’s exclusion both.
However she would possible have been picked if not for harm and sickness. Gayakwad was among the many finest performers from the India aspect throughout the South Africa sequence. She was the joint-highest wicket-taker within the five-match ODI sequence with eight wickets at a mean of 20.25, and picked up a Participant-of-the-Match-winning three for 9 within the third and last T20I.
India is presently grappling with a devastating second wave of Covid-19, and has recorded upwards of 300,000 new circumstances day by day for the final three weeks. Sachin Tendulkar, S Badrinath, Yusuf Pathan, Vanitha VR, and Harmanpreet Kaur are among the many former and present cricketers to have examined constructive for the coronavirus prior to now two months and recovered since.
Former India Girls gamers Devika Palshikar – who was among the many shortlisted candidates for the top coach position that finally went to Ramesh Powar – Amita Sharma and Sunetra Paranjpe have additionally recovered from Covid-19. Households of a number of different cricketers, together with these of MS Dhoni, R Ashwin, Chetan Sakariya, Veda Krishnamurthy, and Piyush Chawla have additionally been affected.
Annesha Ghosh is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo. @ghosh_annesha