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Prolific Indian opener Abhishek Sharma has been hospitalised with an upset stomach before the group match against Namibia at the T20 World Cup, Indian media and officials say.<\/p>\n
Sharma, who is the top-ranked T20I batter in the world, is likely to miss India\u2019s second match of the tournament against Namibia on Thursday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAbhishek has been admitted to a private hospital in Delhi due to a stomach infection,\u201d an official of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) told the country\u2019s PTI news agency.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome tests are being done to ascertain the problem. It is still not clear whether he will be discharged today. But the match against Namibia looks doubtful as of now.\u201d<\/p>\n
The explosive left-hander is key to India\u2019s chances of defending their title at the 20-team tournament, and his participation in the marquee match against Pakistan remains uncertain.<\/p>\n
The 25-year-old was admitted to a New Delhi hospital on Tuesday after he missed training with a stomach issue he carried from the opening match in Mumbai, the AFP news agency said.<\/p>\n
India\u2019s assistant coach Ryan ten Doeschate acknowledged the concern in his pre-match news conference on Tuesday, saying the batsman had \u201cstill got a few issues with his tummy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope that he\u2019ll be available for the game in a few days\u2019 time.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abhishek was out for a duck in India\u2019s win over the United States, but has been a strong performer in the lead-up to the tournament.<\/p>\n
India play their South Asian archrivals in a blockbuster in Sri Lanka after Pakistan reversed its decision to boycott the game over geopolitical tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top batter has been in hospital with an upset stomach and is likely to miss India\u2019s next T20…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421888,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[1487,1721,48795,308,50,217,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-421887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cricket","tag-asia","tag-cricket","tag-icc-mens-t20-world-cup","tag-india","tag-news","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}