Former Indian National Cricket Team off-spinner Harbhajan Singh The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has been criticized for not selecting pace bowling all-rounder Shardul Thakur for the Sarhad-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Harbhajan Singh questioned the selectors’ decision to ignore Shardul Thakur and the like Hardik Pandya Tests and select young Nitish Reddy.
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Nitish Reddy will make his Test debut in Australia
The Indian National Cricket Team will lock horns with the Australian National Cricket Team in the first Test of the five-match series. series In Perth from November 22.
Young all-rounder Nitish Reddy will get the Test cap in Perth as various media reported that the all-rounder has been finalized in the playing XI by the team management.
Nitish Reddy was chosen over Shardul Thakur despite the latter’s past heroics. Thakur has been the team’s main pace-bowling all-rounder in overseas Tests for the past few years, but he has not been considered for the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Meanwhile, Nitish Reddy will act as the fourth seamer and will support Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj and one of them. Akash DeepPrasidh Krishna and Harshit Rana.
Reddy has played 3 T20Is for India so far and has done well. Talking about his first-class record, he played 23 matches and scored 779 runs at an average of 21.05. With the ball, he took 56 first-class wickets.
Where did Shardul Thakur go? Where did Hardik Pandya go? – Harbhajan Singh
Speaking to Jatin Sapru on his YouTube channel, Harbhajan Singh said India needed an all-rounder like Pandya or Thakur for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy but they settled on Nitish Reddy.
“You needed an all-rounder like Hardik Pandya. But you have no choice but to play Nitish Kumar Reddy. Where did Shardul Thakur go? Where did Hardik Pandya go? We just restricted them to the shorter formats. You needed a player. Like Hardik for the last 2-3 years that we started investing in Shardul but he suddenly said you want to confuse Nitish in such a round?
What he can do is take a few meals here and there like Sourav Ganguly – Harbhajan Singh
The legendary spinner feels that Nitish Reddy is not a proper all-rounder and can only get a few overs like Sourav Ganguly did for the Indian team during his playing days.
“What he can do is take a few wickets here and there like Sourav Ganguly did and if he scores 1-2 that would be a bonus,” said Harbhajan Singh.
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