CHENNAI (Reuters) -India’s Shubman Gill has got dengue fever but coach Rahul Dravid said the in-form opener has not yet been ruled out of their World Cup opener against Australia on Sunday.
Gill is the leading run-scorer in one-day internationals this year and the 24-year-old has forged a formidable opening partnership with skipper Rohit Sharma.
“He is certainly feeling better today than he was yesterday, so that’s a positive, but the medical team is monitoring him on a day-to-day basis,” Dravid told reporters on Friday.
“We’ve got 36 hours to go, so we’ll see how that goes.
“We’ll see whatever decision they take. But yes, he’s feeling a little bit better today than he was yesterday.”
Gill has scored 1230 runs at an average of 72.35 this year and his last four innings include two centuries and a half-century.
Should he miss Sunday’s match against five-time champions Australia, wicketkeeper-batsman Ishan Kishan is likely to forge a left-right opening combination with Rohit even though KL Rahul also remains an option for the tournament hosts.
(Reporting by Amlan Chakraborty and Shrivathsa Sridhar; Editing by Peter Rutherford and Toby Davis)
