Top players should be compensated for such emergencies, not just for loss of income but positively encouraged to rest and recover quickly. Perhaps these issues are best discussed through an enlightened Players Association as exists abroad. Half the Bombay Ranji side is unemployed, this when some have played tests. In Delhi, openings for players are as scarce as water in Gujarat. The two consider each other adversaries, not equal partners in the same game.
Players think they are tossed around by uncaring officials.
Officials feel players are greedy and self centred. In a way both are right. Any collective stance by players is seen as a threat by people occupying positions of power. In any power struggle sympathies are invariably with players and officials guaranteed the second place. But both are wrong also.