KL Rahul’s return to international cricket after a sports hernia surgery has been stalled by COVID-19. “KL Rahul is down with COVID,” informed BCCI president Sourav Ganguly after an Apex Council meeting at a five-star hotel in Andheri on Thursday. 

Rahul’s inclusion in teams for the limited overs series in the West Indies was subject to fitness and has not yet been ruled out of the Caribbean series. He missed out on the England and Ireland tours due to the surgery performed in Germany and has been out of action since the completion of the IPL.