Choosing an Indian team is perhaps the hardest undertaking, particularly for the men’s team. The selectors occasionally come under fire for neglecting to recognise some of the players who are consistently playing well with the bat or the ball due to the availability of youthful talent.
One of the domestic talents who regrettably continues to frequently be overlooked for selection to the national squad or the path to playing for India—the India A tours—is the Tamil Nadu wicket-keeper and batter Baba Indrajith. and Indrajith has consistently scored runs for South Zone in crucial matches and challenging circumstances, whether it was in the Ranji Trophy or the Duleep Trophy.
Despite this, he was passed over for both of this year’s India A tours as well as the just-completed tour of Bangladesh and the New Zealand series at home. Indrajith amassed 396 runs in four innings at a mind-boggling average of 99, demonstrating that he is a significant match performer and is capable of scoring runs anytime the team needs them.
The Duleep Trophy final saw him back it up with a century. But the name is still missing from the squad lineups, and a frustrated Indrajith is still perplexed as to what exactly is going on. After the Duleep Trophy match, Indrajith revealed to former selection panel member Sunil Doshi that he was told he was on the radar but that being passed over for the Bangladesh series as well was surely disheartening for the gloveman.
“I have consistently excelled at the First Class level since 2016, yet I never seem to catch a break. I am disappointed to not see my name there since I had anticipated being there this time. Indrajith, who played for Kolkata Knight Riders on his IPL debut this season, continued, “I’m not either sure of the cause.
Indrajith’s Tamil Nadu colleague and veteran India wicket-keeper batsman Dinesh Karthik has subsequently spoken out in his favour, saying that selectors should take his performances seriously because he has been a consistent run-getter and shouldn’t be denied the opportunity to play for India A.
Indrajith will be looking to find takers once more and exploit his red-ball form in the best T20 competition in the world after being released by KKR before to the IPL 2023 auction. It’s high time the judges paid attention to his performances and offered him a chance to move on.
He’s done a lot, thus there is no way they can ban him from playing for India A, at the very least, according to Karthik’s tweets. Indrajith will be looking to find takers once more and exploit his red-ball form in the best T20 competition in the world after being released by KKR before to the IPL 2023 auction.