22 year old Indian National Cricket Team right arm pacer Harshit Rana He praised stand-in captain Jasprit Bumrah and former skipper Virat Kohli for their success in the first Test of the ongoing five-match series. series Against the Australian National Cricket Team.
Harshit Rana is playing his first Test match for India at the Perth Stadium in the high-profile Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
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Harshit Rana was named India’s third pacer for the Perth Test
Harshit Rana has been named as the third pace bowling option by the Indian team management for the opening match of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25.
Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, being the two seniors, automatically picked themselves in the playing XI and the battle was between Harshit Rana, Prasidh Krishna and. Akash Deep for the third seamstress’ nest.
Despite Krishna and Akash having previous Test cricket experience, the Indian team management decided to go with Harshit and the youngster was given his debut cap.
He looked good with the ball and batted on tight lines and lengths. In the first innings, Rana took 3 wickets including the wicket of India’s nemesis Travis Head. Overall, he struck out 15.2 times and gave up 48 runs.
Jassi bhai (Jasprit Bumrah) kept telling me what to do and Virat bhai also gave advice – Harshit Rana
Speaking at a press conference after the conclusion of play on Day 2, the 22-year-old revealed that Bumrah and Kohli continue to give him advice, which has helped him a lot.
“Jassi bhai (Jasprit Bumrah) kept telling me what to do and Virat bhai also gave advice. Those things help a lot. Jassi bhai or Virat bhai, whoever came, they gave me information about what to do in bowling, where to put the ball, where he shouldn’t have put it, that thing gave me a different confidence that “yes, they say to me, then I will be fine”, said Rena.
He also admitted that Jasprit Bumrah’s dominant performance with the ball at the start made things easier for him. Rana said:
“His magic made things easy for me. I calmed down. Jassi bhaiya always creates pressure on one side and that makes it easy for the bowler on the other side.”
The idea was to attack the stumps and I got the wicket – Harshit Rana
Explosive batsman Travis Head hit some sensational knocks against India and he was likely to trouble India once again in the Perth Test.
However, Harshit Rana didn’t let that happen and broke the stumps of the batsman with a brilliant delivery on the first ball of the 12th over.
Meanwhile, Rena revealed her plan to attack the corpse’s stumps, which brought her success.
“The idea was to attack the stumps and I got the wicket. We made some plans in the team meeting and I stuck to it,” Harshit told the media.
Talking about the debut, the pacer revealed that the team management informed him about it news A day before the Test match and he was quite emotional.
“I met the day before the exam and I cried after speaking at the meeting,” she said.
