Team India coach Ravi Shastri (Source: Twitter)
Previous coach Ravi Shastri has hailed T Natarajan as a death bowling specialist, announcing the Indian team missed the left-arm pacer sorely all thru its T20 World Cup debacle in UAE.
Natarajan, who came to the limelight in India’s ancient Take a look at sequence obtain Down Under in early 2021, suffered a knee effort and missed most fragment of the 365 days before making a return in Sunrisers Hyderabad’s 2d match of the IPL-15 here on Monday.
”Very chuffed for him. We missed him within the World Cup. He would’ve been a certainty had he been match,” Shastri said in ESPNCricinfo’s ‘T20 Time: Out’.
His bowling takes the cake within the death overs. But his face takes the cake on his birthday.
A extremely chuffed birthday to our Yorker King, @Natarajan_91. #OrangeArmy #ReadyToRise #TATAIPL pic.twitter.com/J0XAwYnehS
— SunRisers Hyderabad (@SunRisers) April 4, 2022
India had made a heartbreaking team-stage exit within the T20 World Cup in 2021.
”He bought injured in opposition to England when we had been taking half within the ODI sequence and we really missed him (within the World Cup).
”He is that specialist death bowler, bowls those yorkers very skilfully. He is bought sizable regulate. He is skiddy. Somewhat sooner than you mediate and hits the bat,” Shastri said.
The 31-365 days-venerable, who used to be bought encourage by SRH for Rs 4 crore, made a glorious comeback after 12 months, selecting 2 for 26 from his corpulent quota of four overs, even as they suffered their 2d defeat on the mosey with a 12-bustle loss.
Shastri used to be the head coach when the left-arm pacer made his debut for India across the three formats of their memorable 2020-21 tour to Australia.
The outmoded coach said Natarajan used to be a fortunate charm for them.
”Every game I’ve picked him we’ve won. In his debut in T20, India won. In his debut in Take a look at cricket, India won. From a safe bowler, he performed those other two formats,” Shastri said.
SRH will next face defending champions Chennai Tidy Kings on April 9.
