Hardik Pandya fit, Shivam Mavi out, Sourav Ganguly is "advisor"

Fit again, Hardik joins Mumbai Indians

India allrounder Hardik Pandya has regained full fitness and has joined Mumbai Indians' preparatory camp which started on Tuesday. Hardik had been rested by the Indian team management for the entire limited overs series against Australia due to "lower back stiffness." During the time away from the national team, Pandya was at the NCA in Bengaluru for rehabilitation. On Thursday, Hardik even tweeted a video of him batting at the nets, asking fans who he was trying to imitate.

KKR get Warrier; Nagarkoti, Mavi ruled out

Tearaway quick Kamlesh Nagarkoti has been ruled out of the IPL for a second time running, as he's yet to recover from a back injury. The franchise has signed Kerala fast bowler Sandeep Warrier as his replacement.

Nagarkoti, one of India's key players during the Under-19 World Cup triumph last year, was signed for INR 3.2 crores. He's currently at the NCA, and will need another "two-three months" to fully recover. In his absence, KKR had signed Karnataka seamer Prasidh Krishna last year. He has now been inducted as a permanent member.

Their injury concerns don't end there. Shivam Mavi, also part of the Under-19 World Cup winning team last year, has been ruled out of the ongoing season with a stress fracture in his back. Mavi, who plays for Uttar Pradesh in the domestic circuit, is likely to be out of action for at least six months.

Meanwhile, this will be Warrier's second IPL stint, after being part of Royal Challengers Bangalore for three seasons (2013-15), but couldn't get a game. Warrier, who had set his base price of INR 20 lakhs, went unsold. He played a key role in Kerala's first-class season, picking 44 wickets in 10 matches.

His eight-for in the quarterfinal against Gujarat took Kerala to the semi-final for the first time in the tournament history. He carried his form to the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy, where he picked eight wickets in six matches, including a hat-trick in the game against Andhra in the group stage.

Ganguly roped in by Delhi Capitals as advisor

There were whispers as early as March 2018 that Sourav Ganguly was advising Parth Jindal, the new franchise head, on matters regarding Delhi Capital (formerly Delhi Daredevils). On Thursday, it was announced that Ganguly has been signed as an advisor, although the exact nature of his role is yet unclear. Ganguly was part of KKR's leadership for three seasons, and finished his IPL career with Pune Warriors in 2013.

Ganguly hurt by Shastri's 'personal attack'

'Being in such boards for 10 years, he should be alert of how it operates'

A day after Ravi Shastri said he felt slighted by the nonattendance of Sourav Ganguly at his meeting for the post of India's head mentor, Ganguly has reacted by saying he was "extremely disheartened" by Shastri's "own assault."

Ganguly, Sachin Tendulkar, VVS Laxman and previous BCCI secretary Sanjay Jagdale were a piece of the cricket consultative board to discover a successor for Shastri, who had been accountable for the Indian group for year and a half until the World T20 in March 2016. The board had met the last contenders, including Shastri, last Tuesday before Anil Kumble was given the employment.

Debate emerged when Shastri told the media that a separate from the board had not been available at his meeting and that "that individual was ill bred of the applicant who was setting off to the met and ill-bred to the occupation he was endowed to do."

Ganguly was the person who needed to Miss Shastri's presentation since he needed to go to the working board meeting of the Cricket Association of Bengal, where he is president. He said he exited for the CAB knowing whatever is left of the cricket consultative panel had the experience to make the right call.

"I simply feel that the remarks are outstandingly individual and if Ravi Shastri feels that I am in charge of him not being the mentor of India, he's living in a nitwit's reality," Ganguly told TV journalists in Kolkata. "It's a board of trustees and there are individuals in the advisory group who are of more notoriety than I am and there are other individuals included additionally who were counseled and talked about. So that is disillusioning.

"I am to a great degree disheartened when he went on air, communicating his perspectives, particularly from somebody who has been in each BCCI board of trustees throughout the previous 20 years. He has been in my position, you know, the position to choose the mentor. I don't believe he's mindful of everything."

Ganguly said Shastri's meeting was planned at 4.15 pm, yet surveying alternate competitors had taken somewhat more time than anticipated. Ganguly was normal at the CAB at 5 pm, and had as of now picked up the BCCI's agree to briefly leave the board for this reason.

"I had educated the BCCI on the nineteenth [of June] in an official mail that I will need to leave at 5 o' clock in light of the fact that the CAB working advisory group meeting should happen that day and being the president of the affiliation, should seat the meeting.

"The working board of trustee’s meetings get chose 14 days before the meeting and to drop it is incomprehensible. What's more, this meeting was chosen in two days. Ravi's meeting was at 4.15 pm toward the evening and doing interviews with everybody it went past [that time] and we achieved 5 o'clock.

"I asked for the board of trustees on the off chance that I could return at six o'clock and do it once more, which they concurred. When I came here to this conference, I got a message from Mr [Ajay] Shirke [the BCCI secretary] that the other two persons are asking for on the off chance that they could proceed with Ravi, which I approved of. I said 'Fine, I know I have been screwed over thanks to this and you please simply ahead and do it.' That happens all around on the planet and that is the careful story."

Ganguly said he was additionally disheartened that Shastri, a man who has worked with the BCCI for quite a while and knew the obstacles authoritative matters could hurl, had remarked about him in such terrible light.

"It's frustrating, being in such boards for a long time, he ought to know about how it works. I'm by and by hurt as a result of what he said, of slighting, which was not the situation. On the off chance that that was the situation, Ravi's meeting would not have been opened at 4.15 pm and I have the sends."

Noting an inquiry from India Today on what guidance he would give Ganguly, Shastri had said "next time be at a conference when somebody is being met for a position as imperative as that."

Accordingly, Ganguly took offense to Shastri making his presentation by means of Skype as opposed to showing up before the board in individual.

"Since he's talked about irreverence, and genuinely I say this with resentment, that he gave me a recommendation that later on that I ought to be accessible for such gatherings. I've been a piece of the BCCI for some time now and I ensure I'm accessible for such gatherings.

"I have a guidance for him additionally, when the mentor of India is chosen and it's a standout amongst the most essential employments in cricket, he ought to be before the board of trustees giving his presentation and not sit in Bangkok on vacation and make a presentation on camera particularly when somebody who is one of the best cricketers of India unequaled represented two hours about, Anil Kumble."

Ravi Shastri 'very disappointed' to miss out on India coach job

Ravi Shastri: 'Even I didn't' expect such a conversion in 18 months with this young team. I feel really proud'

Ravi Shastri, the previous India allrounder who had served as group executive for just about two years paving the way to Anil Kumble's arrangement as mentor, has said he was "exceptionally frustrated" not to land the head mentor's position himself. He said Sourav Ganguly, one of the individuals from the cricket admonitory board which assumed a key part in picking the mentor, was not present when whatever is left of the advisory group talked with him.

"Indeed, really he wasn't there," he told the ABOCCricinfo, when gotten some information about his cooperation with Ganguly amid his meeting. Shastri was being met by means of Skype - he was in Thailand while council part VVS Laxman and boss facilitator Sanjay Jagdale were in Mumbai. Sachin Tendulkar, likewise an individual from the board of trustees, tuned into the meeting by means of Skype from London. Ganguly, however, was away at a Cricket Association of Bengal meeting.

His communications with whatever remains of the advisory group went well, however, Shastri said. "Meeting was awesome. Some awesome inquiries from VVS, Sachin and Sanjay. I put my way forward for the group. They needed to know how would I plan to do well in all organizations, how we ought to take a gander at quick bowlers, and things of that sort."

However, previous Indian legspinner Kumble was named mentor not long ago. Shastri said he was disillusioned to pass up a major opportunity since the group had done as such well under his direction as group executive. "I was extremely frustrated. Frustration on the grounds that the diligent work the whole unit had placed in the last year and a half. To see where they were the point at which the bolster staff and I expected control and to where they came to in year and a half brands me feel glad.

"They got up, tossed blows and wound up where they were. No. 1 in Test cricket, No. 1 in T20, No. 2 in ODI [at different emphases amid Shastri's tenure]. You can't request more. Indeed, even I didn't' expect such a change in year and a half with this youthful group. I feel truly pleased.

"I was straightforward, buckled down alongside the bolster staff, and the players were phenomenal. Amid those months, with the BCCI being pounded in the court and media for different reasons, cricket was the sparkling light. Individuals truly took to watching the way the Indian group was playing."

Under Shastri, who had expected control as group administrative in August 2014, India made it to semi-finals of progressive worldwide occasions - the 2015 World Cup and the 2016 World T20, furthermore moved to No. 1 on the Test rankings for a time of eight weeks until Australia assumed control in February 2016. In this period, India additionally won their initially constrained overs respective arrangement in Australia, whitewashing the hosts 3-0 in a T20 arrangement. Shastri was helped by Sanjay Bangar (batting mentor), B Arun (knocking down some pins) and R Sridhar (handling). All their agreements terminated toward the end of the 2016 World T20, inciting the quest for another mentor. Bangar had trained the group in the meantime, in Zimbabwe.

Shastri told the Hindu that Kumble had effectively talked with him, and he trusted the group pushed ahead under him. "He [Kumble] rang yesterday [Thursday]. He has an extraordinary group, he said that. I wish him all the good fortune.

"The group is straight up there in all configurations. Right now is an ideal opportunity to step forward, particularly after the [upcoming] voyage through the West Indies; there is a considerable measure of cricket at home [after the West Indies tour], you need to capitalize on the home point of interest. He should can take it forward."

India visit the West Indies in July and August, before returning for a home season comprising of a record 13 Tests against New Zealand, England, Australia and Bangladesh.