SKY hit in the nets, Ishan stung by bee

India knew they had a selection conundrum going into Sunday's game against New Zealand after Hardik Pandya suffered an ankle injury versus Bangladesh in Pune.

- Vivek Krishnan

Pandya provides the kind of balance nobody else does - as a batter at No.6 and as a seamer who gives India the luxury of six bowling options. He will rejoin the team in Lucknow ahead of the game against England, but before that a suitable fix had to be found against table-toppers New Zealand.

That conundrum has been complicated by an action-packed training session at the HPCA Stadium on Saturday. Suryakumar Yadav, widely expected to come in at No.6 in Pandya's place, was barely ten minutes into his net session when a full toss by throwdown specialist Raghu struck his right wrist. Surya went down on his knees in pain and stayed there for a couple of minutes before drawing the attention of the support staff.

An ice pack was placed on the wrist for some time, but he didn't walk back into the nets to resume batting. As he headed back to the dressing room, Surya seemed to suggest to one of the broadcast crew members that he was okay.