Shocking facts about Rohit and Dravid revealed by India all-rounder: “In our first chat, they said I’m a three-format player.”
Shocking facts about Rohit and Dravid revealed by India all-rounder: “In our first chat, they said I’m a three-format player.” Team India is playing Australia in a three-match T20I series right now. The second game of the series was played on Friday in Nagpur. Also, India ‘A’ is playing in a three-match one-day series in Chennai against the Kiwis. The team is led by Sanju Samson and includes India stars Shardul Thakur, Kuldeep Yadav, and Prithvi Shaw, among others.
Indian star’s revelation
Shardul was an essential part of the Indian team in all three formats until late February of this year. He played his last T20I on February 20 against the West Indies. Since then, Shardul played in India’s rescheduled fifth Test against England in July. He didn’t play in the ODI series against England, but he was back in the playing XI against the West Indies and Zimbabwe. It’s important to note that many of India’s first-team stars didn’t play in the latter series, including captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Hardik Pandya.
Shardul isn’t on the Indian T20I team right now, and he hasn’t been picked for the 15-person T20 World Cup team either. The 30-year-old star, on the other hand, dropped a shocking revelation when he talked about his talk with the Indian team’s management about his role in the team. He said that Rahul Dravid, the team’s head coach and Rohit told him that they are “looking at him in all three formats.”
“In the first conversation between them and me, they conveyed to me that I am a three-format player for them. They are looking at me in all three formats. After that, we really did not sit and have a chat because we have been playing games regularly,” Shardul told ESPNCricinfo.
“If you see, the schedule is packed. The Indian team is playing series after series with a gap of just four-five days. No one has really had time to sit and chat with each other.”
Shardul’s play
Shardul has taken 14 wickets in nine ODIs this year. The last time he didn’t take any wickets in a fifty-over international was in February.“I am bowling well, getting wickets. Even in the last two white-ball series that I’ve played, I have taken wickets. So definitely looking for a national call again whenever they want my services,” said Shardul.