Sharma blow for India

CARDIFF, WALES - AUGUST 27: India batsman Rohit Sharma picks up some runs during the 2nd Royal London One Day International match between England and India at SWALEC Stadium on August 27, 2014 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

CARDIFF, WALES - AUGUST 27: India batsman Rohit Sharma picks up some runs during the 2nd Royal London One Day International match between England and India at SWALEC Stadium on August 27, 2014 in Cardiff, Wales. (Photo by Stu Forster/Getty Images)

Published Aug 29, 2014

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New Delhi - India opener Rohit Sharma will miss the next three one-day internationals and the one-off Twenty20 game against England with a finger injury and will be replaced by Murali Vijay, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Friday.

“Rohit Sharma has sustained a fracture on the middle finger of his right hand, and has been ruled out of the ongoing ODI and T20 International series against England, as a result,” BCCI secretary Sanjay Patel said in a statement.

Sharma scored 52 in India's 133-run win in the rain-marred second one-dayer at Cardiff on Wednesday to help the visitors go 1-0 up in the five-match series. Nottingham hosts the next match on Saturday.

Vijay, a right-hander like Sharma, opened in the five-match test series which England won 3-1.

He was India's highest scorer in the test series with 402 runs at an average of over 40-plus including a century in the first Test. – Reuters

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