the former India Leg-spinner Laxman Sivaramakrishnan said in the absence of Kuldeep Yadav and Yuzvendra Chahal from the upcoming ODI series against Bangladesh, he would pick Axar Patel for the series opener at the Sher-e-Bangla National on Sunday. Cricket Stadium (SBNCS) in Mirpur, Dhaka.
Bad time for Axar Patel in T20 World Australia scored at 8.62 runs per over in the cup and took only three wickets in the tournament. With Ravindra Jadeja unavailable for the ODIs due to injury and Kuldeep-Chahal out, Patel could look to replace Washington Sundar as the main spinner for the ODIs against Bangladesh.
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“For me, I would pick Akshar, who is also a good cricketing brain. Despite being talented, he knows his limits. He knows he is not a big turner of the ball. He bowls good line and length and has a sharp cricketing mind. He knows how to get wickets by bundling them up and bowls a really good arm ball.”
“I would pick Akshar as he has the ability to bat, is aware of the match situation, and doesn’t come under pressure most of the time. But someone like Shahbaz (Ahmed, fellow left-arm spin all-rounder), you can think, yes Bangladesh. But don’t take them lightly because everyone knows what happened in 2007.” Play Network.
Interestingly, both India and Bangladesh have not picked the specialist wrist spinner for the upcoming ODI series. Both Kuldeep and Chahal used to be automatic selections for India until they proved too expensive against England in the league stage. Since then, his ODI career has gone in different directions.
“As far as Kuldeep and Chahal are concerned, Kuldeep cried when he was taken all over the park (5-ball 26 by Moeen Ali in IPL 2019) and after that point in the game everyone went after him . As the batsmen went after him, he hit a few sixes and brought down their morale. About Chahal, how much success has he had in the recent past in the 50-over format? You can be economical in the middle overs like I talked about with Washington Sundar,” Sivaramakrishnan said.
He also gave an example from his playing days where he tried to highlight how India needed to show confidence in Kuldeep and Chahal’s skills in ODIs to pick up wickets in the middle overs.
“When I played the World Championship of Cricket in 1985, Sunil Gavaskar gave me the license and said, ‘Brow ten overs, even if you get 50-55 runs’. It was very expensive at that time and he said, ‘Give me to you’ “Need three-four wickets. Ravi (Shastri) will bowl with you and he will keep it tight and he will create pressure. I want you to bowl at four wickets.
“Between 10 overs between me and Ravi, he used to say that between 20 overs between the two of you, I need 100 runs and four or five wickets. I worked to break the backbone of the opposition and that is what happened. It was a plan and this match happened from number one to the final. Except for the final, we got every team all out in 50 overs. You need good planning and skill and you need to rely on a cricketer to take wickets. In today’s time, no matter how many runs you score, the batsmen chase it.”
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With less than 12 months left for the ODI World Cup in India, Sivaramakrishnan wants India to make a habit of winning by fielding their strongest possible playing XI in all the matches in the build-up to the mega event.
“Every win will give you confidence, the combination will sort itself out and your process can go out the window. You will get a team that is full of confidence and in the habit of winning matches. You have to build any habit at a time and you have to build a winning habit at a time. The process and all those things can happen over the net.”
“When you are playing an international match, you have to play your best side, the best combination for the conditions out there and you have to play to win. When you are going into the World Cup and 20 ODIs before that If you’re going to play, you can’t win every one of them, I agree.”
“If you have 80% or 15 out of 20 wins, and that too a good win, with guys like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul coming in good form, and in the bowling department, Bumrah comes back at some stage and He comes in form because what you do in a match situation is completely different from the nets.”
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