Dhawan suffers shoulder injury, out for 'at least seven' days

Shikhar Dhawan has a shoulder injury, Punjab Rulers mentor Sanjay Bangar has affirmed, and could be down and out for seven days, perhaps, or significantly more. In the event that it's seven days, Dhawan, the assigned skipper of the group, could miss two IPL 2024 matches, against Mumbai Indians (April 18) and against Gujarat Titans (April 21), both at home in Mullanpur. Talking a public interview after Rulers' last-over rout in a low-scoring game against Rajasthan Royals in Mullanpur, Bangar previously said Dhawan could be out for "basically two or three days", and that it very well may be "no less than seven-ten days". "He's having a shoulder injury, so he is probably going to be out for essentially several days, I would agree," Bangar said. "Having an accomplished opener, someone like Shikhar, who has insight of playing on such wickets, turns out to be very urgent [for the team]. "We need to keep a watch out how he answers the treatment. Right now, it appears to be that he could be down and out for something like seven-ten days." In Dhawan's nonattendance, Sam Curran left for the throw for Rulers, which prompted some measure of disarray, since Jitesh Sharma had gone to the skippers' meeting in Chennai preceding the beginning of the time. "No, no, he [Jitesh] wasn't the assigned bad habit commander," Bangar explained when posed the inquiry. "The impression might have been on the grounds that he went to the chiefs' workshop, or meeting, toward the beginning of the IPL. Yet, the idea was dependably that… since Sam has driven the group in the earlier year too; he was late to show up from UK and he needed to have a couple [training] meetings, that is the explanation we were unable to send him to Chennai. Consequently Jitesh was sent, in light of the fact that the order was that a player needs to join in. "It wasn't true that Jitesh was the substitute commander. We were extremely clear in our psyche that if by any means there must be an opening, Sam Curran will be dominating and finish the work as the skipper." Dhawan hasn't made some fabulous memories of it with the bat in IPL 2024, however is Rulers' most noteworthy run-getter at this stage with 152 runs from five innings, scoring at a normal of 30.40 and a strike pace of 125.61. As a matter of fact, Rulers' battles with the bat at the highest point of the innings have contributed in a significant manner to their absence of wins - they have four misfortunes from six games up until this point and are down at eighth put on the table. Jonny Bairstow, Dhawan's initial accomplice, has made some unpleasant memories as well, scoring only 96 runs in six innings, while Prabhsimran Singh (119 runs in six innings) and Jitesh (106 runs in six innings) have battled for consistency and effect too. On Saturday, with Dhawan out, Lords attempted Atharva Taide at the top. He scored 15 runs in 12 balls as Lords set up 38 for 1 in the powerplay en route to a sum of 147 for 8. "Positively is a reason to worry that the top request isn't making an adequate number of runs for us," Bangar said. "They are making a respectable attempt - I'm not saying that they are not putting forth a concentrated effort - however it's simply not coming. Low-scoring games, particularly at Mullanpur, how the wicket is… that likewise has a component. Since, in such a case that you see, a portion of the scores have been low. "Every one of the three games that we have played here, in the initial six overs, with the new ball, the wicket will in general jag a tad, and lopsided skip too. So perhaps that is likewise a contributing component in light of the fact that, not just us, the opposing groups and their top request are confronting issues."