mumbai rohit sharma has been rested from the whiteball leg of the australian tour but has been added to the test squad skipper virat kohli will return home after the opening dn test in adelaide from december 1721 as the bcci granted him paternity leavein its edition on monday toi had reported about the possibility of rohit being rested for the limitedover games to ensure that he would be fit for the tests as kohli has requested the board to grant him leave after the first testwith kohli set to miss the last three tests of what is set to be a tough series and test vicecaptain ajinkya rahane in poor form we need rohit for the tests against a formidable australia he may even lead the team in the tests we want to give him complete time to recover from his hamstring injury a source in the board had told toi on sundaythe bcci medical team has been monitoring rohits fitness and has briefed the selection committee on the same in consultation with rohit it has been decided to rest him for the odis and t20is in australia said the bcci releaserohits inclusion in the test squad by the sunil joshiled national selection committee thus ended an episode which had become embarrassing for the bcci on the day he was omitted from the australia tour due to injury with the bcci saying that his injury would be monitored by its medical team the mumbai indians tweeted a video of their captain batting in the nets subsequently he went on to play the last two games for mi bringing into scanner the role of team india physio nitin patel in the whole fiascothe board also informed that senior pacer ishant sharma has been undergoing rehab at the national cricket academy nca in bengaluru once he fully recovers and gains sufficient match fitness he will be added to the test squad like rohit the senior pacer was also provisionally left out of the squad after an abdominal muscle tear ruled him out of ipl2020natarajan replaces varunin another development which again put the role of the bcci medical team in question mystery spinner varun chakravarthy who had earned his maiden callup to the national team for the t20is has been ruled out due a shoulder injury he has been replaced with leftarm seamer t natarajan who was previously included in a reserve group of net bowlers the sunrisers hyderabad bowler has impressed with his ability to fire in an astonishing number of yorkers 71 overall during ipl2020how much the ipl impacts the bodies of cricketers was again evident when the board release informed that pacer kamlesh nagarkoti who was also in the reserves will not fly to australia as he is still working with the bccis medical team on his workload management the 20yearold who played for kkr has been nursing by a chronic back injurysamson in odi squadthe selectors have decided to take more time to observe if senior