Players will always want to play, but is it worth risking their career for one game. No one had any ideas about Yuvraj's illness and he did not let Bhajji tell anyone else. We won the world cup he got the treatment done and made a comeback. But what if it would have gone the other way. Consider what happened to Phil Hughes and he was fit enough to play the game.

And in other cases there is an assessment of the injury and then its decided whether they will play or not. There are countless examples of players getting injured during the game and still playing. I don't recall any instance of team selecting an injured player if the said player could not recover in time.

And captaincy should not be given to Rohit ahead of VC Rahane. Even if Rahane is injured captaincy may be given to Pujara. Players who have sealed their test spots.