What initially seemed a concerning image, after a few seconds ended in smiles as India captain Rohit Sharma had dislocated his shoulder while fielding in the second ODI against England at Lord’s, but quickly snapped it back to its place.
Rohit Sharma Dislocates His Elbow
During one of Ravindra Jadeja’s over, Rohit was fielding at the cover position inside the circle. Liam Livingstone struck a ball hard on the off-side but Rohit was sharp with his fielding reflexes to get a hand to it and take the speed out of the ball for the deep fielder to recover it and only a single was taken instead of a boundary.
However, soon after Rohit had jumped to save the boundary, he was seen clutching in hand and what looked like an injury – Rohit has had issued with shoulder and finger injuries in the past.
This was promptly noticed by commentator Sanjay Manjrekar who told the viewers that Rohit had dislocated his shoulder this time.
However, and thankfully, Rohit was calm and didn’t panic. He held his left hand with his right hand, tightened his left hand and gave a strong jerk to it so that the dislocated part went back into its socket.
You can watch here:
Rohit Sharma doing the Shoulder socket thing. #India #IndianCricketTeam #IndiaVSEnglandODIonSonyLIV pic.twitter.com/AIZinkMTlx
— Ashutosh Upadhyay (@Ashu__Upadhyay) July 14, 2022
Rohit scored a duck
After this incident, Sharma even went out of the field for a while, but fans breathed a sigh of relief when he was back on the field and also came out to bat in the chase of 247.
Rohit had returned to his form in the match, smashing 76* runs off 58 balls in which he stroked 7 exquisite fours and 5 thumping sixes, all hooks and pulls. However, he couldn’t add any score today as the Indian captain was dismissed for a 10-ball duck today, being dismissed by left-armer Reece Topley.
Topley had tied Rohit down with a maiden over first up and then had him lbw with a delivery that pitched on leg-and-middle, went across the right-hander, hit on the back pad and as proved on the DRS, was going to hit and top of off-and-middle.
