Mumbai Indians head coach Mahela Jayawardene on Friday (October 1) asserted that his team isn’t any longer going to bustle Hardik Pandya into bowling in the continued IPL 2021 as he might perhaps perhaps per chance ‘struggle’ if pushed too onerous and might perhaps perhaps per chance no longer be an asset at the same time as a batsman. He also said that the likelihood of Pandya bowling in the match will doubtless be evaluated on a day to day foundation.
“Whether he can bowl in the IPL or no longer is something that we will wish to web a study it on a day to day foundation and test after which look how he progresses. Nonetheless for the time being, at the same time as you push too onerous, it might perhaps perhaps most likely perhaps per chance perhaps be a topic the build you furthermore mght can struggle and might perhaps perhaps per chance no longer be an asset at the same time as a batsman. So as that’s something we can wish to web in tips and with consideration with all alive to events and resolve it a day at a time,” said Jayawardene in a digital pre-match press conference before Mumbai’s conflict with Delhi Capitals on Saturday.
Notably, after missing the first two fits in the second leg of the match in the UAE, Pandya has featured for Mumbai as a pure batsman. The all-rounder hadn’t bowled in the first leg of the match in India as effectively due to niggle points.
Meanwhile, Hardik’s health points web reportedly left BCCI scratching its head before the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup, which is scheduled to occur from October 17 in UAE, as Indian team is currently missing a appropriate all-rounder.
With this pattern, Kolkata Knight Riders’ all-rounder Venkatesh Iyer is being dubbed as the frontrunner to interchange Hardik Pandya in the Team India squad for the T20 World Cup.
Interestingly, Iyer has lit up the IPL 2021, scoring 193 runs in true 5 video games including two fifties. The left-hander, who bowls medium walk, has also chipped in with three wickets and has bowled the advanced overs for KKR in Andre Russell’s absence.
Moreover, legendary cricketer Sunil Gavaskar lavished reward on Iyer after being mightily impressed by his all-spherical abilities and said that the 26-365 days-faded ‘would be the all-rounder India is attempting for’.
“In Venkatesh Iyer, Kolkata web unearthed a player who would be the all-rounder that India is attempting for. His bowing isn’t any longer remark, nonetheless he will get the yorker neutral appropriate greater than no longer and doesn’t let the batsman slog him. As a batsman, he plays genuine, which will get into a giant topic to play the instant ball, and he drives beautifully by the off-aspect love each and every left-handers appear to attain,” Gavaskar wrote in his latest column for the Cases of India.
Also, KKR coach Brendon McCullum on Friday praised Iyer and said, “Venkatesh Iyer is simply an all-rounder. It is no longer true his cricketing skill, it’s his mindset and cricketing mind. He has a giant perspective on the game and he is a man with gigantic ambitions, he has a giant future as a valid all-rounder. I agree with he is a form of cricketers who goes to determine on up higher and higher. I agree with what he has performed to this point reveals he belongs at this diploma.”
It is price declaring that India can make a choice up adjustments in the T20 World Cup squad sooner than October 10 as per ICC guidelines. The Men in Blue will delivery their marketing campaign against arch-competitors Pakistan on October 24.
