New Delhi: The last year and a half has not been anything special for the Indian Cricket Team. Where the graph of performance of senior players is going down. On the other hand, young players i.e. junior players are constantly asserting their claim. A fresh example of this has been seen from the match played by India against Bangladesh on Saturday. Ishan Kishan played a historic innings of 210 runs in this match. Not only Kishan, Shubman Gill’s earlier performance, Ruturaj Gaikwad’s explosive batting in the Vijay Hazare Trophy and Sanju Samson’s brilliant comeback… all these have left the BCCI and the team management in a big quandary.
Talking about the performance of Team India in the last few tournaments, apart from Virat Kohli, other senior players could not leave their mark. Rohit Sharma’s performance is constantly being questioned. At the same time, KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan also failed to perform well. Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Mohammed Shami and Jasprit Bumrah also did not play well. In such a situation, the brilliant performance of players like Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Sanju Samson, Umran Malik, Arshdeep Singh and Mohammad Siraj has made Team India think. Now a dilemma has arisen against BCCI as well.
The ODI World Cup is to be played in India next year. Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan are creating their own separate records in different matches. Dinesh Karthik said that it is difficult to keep Ishan out after his performance against Bangladesh. Apart from this, Shubman Gill is also making his own record. If Rohit Sharma returns at such a time then there may be a situation where someone has to sit out but it remains to be seen what will happen.
Ishan Kishan is a left-handed wicket-keeper batsman and can play as a wicket-keeper if he is included in the playing XI. Similar questions were being raised over Rishabh Pant’s performance in the white-ball format, he was also ruled out of the Bangladesh series and KL Rahul had to keep the wicket in his place. In such a situation, Ishan can get a place in the team as a wicket keeper batsman and KL Rahul can play only as a batsman.