Since he decided to withdraw from the South Africa series in the middle of December 2023, Ishan Kishan has not played. He was therefore left out of the squad for the T20 World Cup in January 2024 after missing the Afghanistan series. He cited mental exhaustion as the cause of his break from the game, and in February, the BCCI rejected his application for a central player contract. Ishan ignored Jay Shah, the secretary of the BCCI, who had strongly warned players not to play domestic cricket.
He was not included in the second-string team that left for the five-match series in Zimbabwe, after his exclusion from the T20 World Cup roster. The wicket-keeper batsman has opened out about his exclusion as things appear dire for him. Even when he was playing well and scoring runs, he continued, things were against him.
It was gloomy. I wouldn’t want to state that everything was good today. For me, it was by no means simple. You endure a great deal. Q&A: What happened, why me? Mere dimag mei ye sab chalta raha ki yaar kya hoga gaya, kyu ho gaya, mere saath kyu. “It all happened while I was performing,” Ishan Kishan stated, as reported by Indian Express.
“I was running up runs when I ended up on the bench. A team sport does experience these things. However, I was tired from travelling. It indicated that something was off; I didn’t feel right or well, so I made the decision to take a break. Unfortunately, nobody understood that outside of my family and a select group of close friends,” he continued.
Playing domestic cricket is illogical: Ishan Kishan
The southpaw came under fire for choosing to play white-ball domestic cricket over red-ball domestic cricket. In the Mumbai Indians camp, he was spotted working out with Hardik Pandya in preparation for the Indian Premier League in 2024. Explaining his choice, Ishan Kishan said that since the goal was to take a sabbatical from cricket, it was not a realistic option to have chosen to play domestic cricket instead of international cricket.
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“I think it was normal that I take a break. It’s a requirement to play domestic cricket if you wish to make a comeback. That’s all there is to it. Playing domestic cricket was completely different for me now because it made no logic. I took a sabbatical from playing international cricket because I wasn’t in the right mindset. It makes little sense to play domestic cricket after taking a vacation from international cricket. “I could have continued to play for India if I had continued on the international scene,” he said in closing.
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