Asia Cup 2023: Team India Needs Batters Who Can Bowl, Feels THIS Former India Opener
The Indian selectors are yet to announce the squad for the upcoming Asia Cup 2023 or the provisional team for the ODI Cricket World Cup 2023.
One of the headaches for the Indian team in limited-overs matches is absence of quality all-rounders if Ravindra Jadeja in missing from the line-up.
The Indian batting was exposed in the five-match T20I series loss to the West Indies recently and former India opener Aakash Chopra believes.
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The side needs more ‘batters who can bowl’ in ODIs and T20I matches. He also called for spin-bowling all-rounder Washington Sundar to.
Become a part of India’s scheme of things in T20I format. Sundar has been picked for the three-match T20I series against Ireland, which will get underway.
On Friday in Malahide.“Considering that most of the current Indian batters don’t bowl even a couple of overs, Indian team must start pushing.
For batters who do. Yashasvi-Tilak should be given a longer rope…and encouraged to bowl as often as possible. Washington has to be in India’s T20.
Scheme of things too,” said Chopra in a tweet on X (formerly known as Twitter). Considering that most of the current Indian batters don’t bowl.
Even a couple of overs, Indian team must start pushing for batters who do. Yashasvi-Tilak should be given a longer rope_and encouraged to bowl.
As often as possible. Washington has to be in India’s T20 scheme of. Indian batting stalwarts like Rohit Sharma (11 international wickets)
And Virat Kohli (eight international wickets) have not bowled since years despite rolling their arms a bit in their initial years, causing the team to lose out.
On the variety and options that they could have offered with their part-time bowling. Also, new batters like Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer and.
Suryakumar Yadav have played as specialist batters. But this was not the case with the Indian team of the old days, with batting stars like.
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Sachin Tendulkar (201 international wickets), Virender Sehwag (136 international wickets), Sourav Ganguly (132 international wickets)
Yuvraj Singh (148 international wickets) and Suresh Raina (62 international wickets) being extremely capable with the ball and had the.
Ability to pick up crucial wickets just when their team needed.The lack of batters who can bowl has caused the team to be heavily dependent on.
Their full-time bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
Umran Malik, Umesh Yadav etc with all-rounders Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and bowling all-rounders Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel and.
Ravichandran Ashwin being the only players providing the team with much-needed depth and options due to their capabilities and.
Consistency with both bat and ball.Tilak (14 wickets in first-class, List A and T20 cricket) and Yashasvi (seven wickets across all formats.
At the domestic level) were given the ball during the final T20I against West Indies, which India lost. India lost the series 2-3. During the series.
India’s batting depth was a key issue. Notably, ahead of the fourth T20I against the Windies, Indian bowling coach Paras Mhambrey had said.
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That the team is working with Yashasvi and Tilak on their bowling. “When you have someone who can chip in, it is nice. I have seen Tilak and.
Yashasvi bowl since U19 days. They are capable of being good bowlers. They can work on it at this level. When you got options like these.
It is nice to have them. We will see them bowl soon hopefully, we are working on it. It will take time. Soon, we will see them bowling an over.
At least,” said Mhambrey recently. Team India will begin their campaign in the Asia Cup 2023 with a clash against arch-rivals Pakistan on September 2 in Kandy.
