Sudharsan, the 23-year-old Tamil Nadu and Gujarat Titans (GT) batter who is understood to be on the fringes of the India Test team – he has already made his international debut in ODIs and T20Is – played only one Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy T20 game, scoring 9 against Tripura, before heading to the BCCI’s National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru. He is expected to miss the entire Vijay Hazare Trophy 50-over domestic tournament, from December 21 to January 18.
Prior to the lone Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy appearance, Sudharsan was with India A in Australia, and had a good outing in the first four-day game, scoring 21 and 103, but failed in the second, scoring only 0 and 3. That came on the back of a good run in the first chunk of this season’s two-part Ranji Trophy, where he has scored 82 against Saurashtra and 213 against Delhi in his only…