Timeline of Rohit & Ishant's injuries as Ravi Shastri says they both should arrive in Australia as soon as they can

In probably the game of the recently concluded IPL, which went to the two super overs to decide the winner, Rohit Sharma suffered an injury in his hamstring in the wee hours of the game. Rohit didn't take the field in the second super over as Kieron Pollard marshalled the troops for Mumbai Indians.

Subsequently, he didn't feature in Mumbai's next four games. While, Ishant Sharma was ruled out of the tournament due to a left oblique muscle tear and was sent to NCA to recover fully before the upcoming test series against Australia.

While there was no new update about Sharma's injury from the MI camp, the selectors shocked everyone and left both Rohit and Ishant out of the squads announced for the Australia tour.

The selection committee informed that both would be monitored and accordingly will be added into the squad after recovering to full fitness.

Howerver, the thing that puzzled everyone was if he wasn't that fit to be even announced in the squad must have meant that his IPL was over. And, as happened that wasn't the case, so the confusion lurked around for a longer period than expected.

After missing four games, Rohit came back into the Mumbai Indians line-up in their last league game against the Sunrisers Hyderabad (SRH).

When he was asked if everything was fine, Rohit replied saying, "Looks like that." However, his statement contradicted a couple of statements made prior to the game, one by the head coach Ravi Shastri and one by the BCCI President Sourav Ganguly.

On November 1, the head coach said that Rohit needed to be careful as he was in danger of injuring himself again. A couple of days later, Ganguly said that Rohit was still injured and would come back into the side if he proves his fitness. But, the same day Rohit came back leading the MI outfit and said he was absolutely fine.

So, the confusion was only rising. 

On the next day of IPL final, India announced updated squads for the Australia tour and Rohit was finally named, albeit only for the test matches.

The BCCI selection committee said that selecting him just for the tests will give him time to fully recover and be ready for the challenge of playing with the red and pink balls on Australian tracks. 

Now, the confusion was regarding the extent of Rohit's injury. As, just a few hours ago he had scored a match-winning 68 (51) against the Delhi Capitals to win an IPL title for the fifth time for his side. And, now he wasn't fit for the limited overs series that was going to start 16 days later.

Ishant Sharma was still not named in the squad as he was recovering at the NCA and his selection remained subject to fitness.

Another controversy erupted when after being named in the squad, Rohit was not on the flight to Australia with the whole team.

A night after the IPL final, the whole team clicked a photo before their departure to Australia. Also, present in the photo was wicket-keeper batsman Wriddhiman Saha who apparently had suffered a hamstring tear and didn't play the last two games in the IPL for his side SRH.

So, the questions started rising that if Saha was travelling with the team and was going to recover with the Indian physio, why was Sharma sent back to India to recover at NCA?

However, amid the lack of clarity, Rohit after beginning his fitness training at NCA on November 18, said that his hamstring was fine but he needed to be absolutely clear in his mind so that no stone is left unturned before he plays the longer format.