NEW DELHI: There’s rising concern in Indian cricket over the paucity of seam-bowling allrounders. The crew administration and the selectors are ceaselessly within the hunt to discover a backup for the injury-prone Hardik Pandya. Even India’s dominant win over Afghanistan within the first T20I right here on Sunday evening could not masks the large crack of their armour.Nitish Kumar Reddy and Shivam Dube went for 51 runs within the three overs they bowled. Greater than the runs conceded, the truth that they got here on to bowl solely after the 4 frontline bowlers had damaged the again of the Afghan batting is what can be extra disconcerting for the crew administration. Captain Shreyas Iyer did go to Reddy first to bowl the quota of the fifth bowler, however could not throw the ball again to him after two overs.It is comprehensible that Reddy can also be getting back from a three-month harm layoff whereas Dube has been bowling little or no during the last two-three years. Nevertheless it’s an space that the Indian crew administration is keen to cowl when the prep for the ODI World Cup begins after the Asian Games. Successfully, the subsequent T20Is towards Afghanistan on Tuesday and Thursday earlier than the Asian Video games can be an audition for Reddy.Pandya continues to be working on the Centre of Excellence (CoE) on his health to be obtainable to bowl 10 overs in an ODI. However the selectors are hamstrung by accidents to each potential possibility. Reddy himself spends as a lot time on the CoE as Pandya. Now, it has emerged that Suryansh Shedge and Venkatesh Iyer are too nursing accidents. Harshit Rana, too, has been breaking down steadily. It is a weird state of affairs for the selectors. Reddy is slated to be in Japan for the Asian Video games when India play an ODI sequence towards West Indies at residence later this month.There is not any readability on when Hardik can be declared match for a world match. Thus, the subsequent two matches right here on the Kotla turn into extraordinarily essential for each Reddy and Dube.
Varun dominated out of Afghanistan sequence, contemporary blow to CoE
Varun Chakravarthy has been dominated out of the remainder of two T20Is towards Afghanistan to be performed on Tuesday and Thursday. The main points of the harm are awaited.His participation within the upcoming Asian Video games can be determined after the BCCI‘s medical crew assesses the harm. Chakravarthy’s harm is one other jolt to the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence (CoE) underneath cricket head VVS Laxman.