India all-rounder Pooja Vastrakar is about to overlook a minimum of two extra weeks of aggressive cricket because of a hamstring damage.
The 26-year-old Madhya Pradesh participant has been out of motion since 2024 because of a shoulder difficulty for which she had a surgical procedure final yr. She has been doing her rehabilitation on the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru.
The pace-bowling allrounder was all set to function for Royal Challengers Bengaluru for Rs. 85 Lakh however didn’t function for the facet in its marketing campaign opener towards Mumbai Indians.
“Pooja Vastrakar isn’t obtainable for choice. Two days previous to her launch from the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence, she sadly tweaked her hamstring. It’s going to take two weeks extra. She was there for her shoulder and has now picked up a hamstring difficulty,” stated RCB head coach Malolan Rangarajan instructed reporters after the facet’s thrilling three-wicket win over defending champion MI.
The hamstring difficulty is the most recent addition to an extended checklist of accidents the pacer has suffered in her profession which has stored her out of the sector for lengthy swathes of time. From ACL points to recurring knee hassle, Pooja, as soon as touted to be the successor to Jhulan Goswami and Shikha Pandey, discovered herself off the radar throughout essential tournaments for the Indian girls’s cricket crew.
Printed on Jan 10, 2026