India’s squad for his or her upcoming two-Test sequence towards the West Indies has obtained blended reactions. While there have been good needs for Yashasvi Jaiswal and Mukesh Kumar, two potential debutants within the sequence, former gamers have criticized the selectors for not selecting Sarfaraz Khan and dropping Cheteshwar Pujara.
Although Pujara had a disappointing efficiency throughout India’s defeat to Australia within the last of the World Test Championship, former captain and batting legend Sunil Gavaskar highlighted that the staff’s batting had collectively failed. Gavaskar additional expressed his perception that India ought to have rested most of their senior gamers for the West Indies sequence, and dropping solely Pujara looks as if making him a scapegoat.
Former India ladies’s head coach, WV Raman, has now voiced his dissatisfaction with the remedy of Pujara. He finds it perplexing that India plans to play one among 4 doable openers within the No.3 place that Pujara has vacated.
“The problem is that they have picked four possible openers, and they have dropped Pujara, which is another bone of contention. A cricketer like Pujara has done a lot for Indian cricket, and he has been instrumental for India winning both at home and abroad on quite a few occasions,” Raman informed former India opener Aakash Chopra on the latter’s Youtube channel.
“He is a gritty customer. He was even elevated to vice-captaincy quite recently but a failure in the WTC final, he finds that he is left out in the cold. I think this is one decision that has not gone down well with many people, and I, personally, as well, I am not for it.”
Raman urged that Pujara deserves a becoming farewell if certainly his Test profession has reached its conclusion. The 35-year-old cricketer has showcased his prowess in 103 Test matches, accumulating a formidable whole of 7195 runs at a median of 43.60. This outstanding feat consists of a formidable tally of 19 centuries and 45 half-centuries.
“He deserves to be treated properly. In the event, if they think it’s the end of Pujara, he could have been given a better exit, but that’s how things happen sometimes, and this is not the first case again. There are a lot of precedences as far as this kind of treatment is concerned.”
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