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India all-rounder Hardik Pandya will miss the remainder of the ongoing Cricket World Cup due to an ankle injury, confirmend the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Hardik twisted his ankle during India\u2019s victory over Bangladesh in Pune on October 19 and suffered a with a ligament tear meaning he did not feature for the hosts during their matches against New Zealand, England and Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n
Fast bowler Prasidh Krishna has been called up to the Indian squad, after being given approval from the ICC\u2019s Event Technical Committee, as a replacement and will be available for selection from Sunday 5 November.<\/p>\n
An ICC statement read: \u201cIndia\u2019s unbeaten start to the ICC Men\u2019s Cricket World Cup has received a massive hit with news that star all-rounder Hardik Pandya has failed to recover from his ankle injury and will miss the remainder of the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cHis place in India\u2019s squad will be taken by Prasidh Krishna, with the inexperienced fast bowler parachuted into the playing group after being approved by the tournament\u2019s Event Technical Committee on Saturday.\u201d<\/p>\n
India sit at the top of the points table with seven wins in seven matches and take on second-placed South Africa on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Head coach Rahul Dravid explained the reasoning behind replacing a prominent all-rounder with an inexperienced quick bowler in Krishna.<\/p>\n
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India\u2019s Prasidh Krishna has been brought into the squad to replace Hardik Pandya<\/p>\n
\u201cThink it\u2019s a pretty obvious thought process.\u201d he said in a press conference ahead of India\u2019s crucial World Cup match against South Africa today. <\/p>\n
\u201cAfter Hardik has been injured, which he has been for the last two or three games, and then obviously didn\u2019t play a couple of the games in the Australia series as well. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe have played with a combination which has been three fast bowlers and two spinners. And yeah, in our reserves, in the guys sitting outside in the 15, we had a backup for the spin. We had a backup for the spin, we had a backup for the batting, and we had a backup in the bowling all around the category.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, we did recognize that if this is a combination we\u2019re going to take, and if there is an issue of an illness, or a small niggle, or an injury, then we need to have a backup for that. It also allows us to play other combinations. It doesn\u2019t mean that we can\u2019t play other combinations. But if this is the one combination that which we have gone with recently, then yeah, that is the one area which we possibly hadn\u2019t backed up with the injury to Hardik Pandya.\u201d<\/p>\n
28-year-old Krishna played 17 ODIs for India taking 29 wickets at an economy of 5.60. His last appearance for India came against Australia in a bilateral ODI series just ahead of the World Cup, where he dismissed David Warner and went for 45 runs off his 9 overs.<\/p>\n