Veteran Indian keeper-batter Dinesh Karthik identified the flaw within the Indian squad for the ICC World Cup 2023. He believes that the Males in Blue lack a left-arm pacer within the workforce they usually have been clear that they don’t want Arshdeep Singh for the occasion.
BCCI just lately introduced the Indian squad for the ICC World Cup 2023. They named 4 pacers within the workforce in Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Jasprit Bumrah, and Shardul Thakur. All of them possess the identical means as right-arm seam bowlers.
India lack a left-arm seamer within the workforce and with Arshdeep Singh within the ranks, they didn’t choose him even. The lanky pacer performed for India within the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 and was the workforce’s main wicket-taker in that match. However they didn’t play him within the ODIs a lot.
Dinesh Karthik mentioned that they didn’t have a look at Arshdeep Singh as a wicket-taking choice and identified that his incapacity to make a big influence in the course of the center overs was the rationale behind his snub. Chatting with Cricbuzz, he defined:
“India have been clear that Arshdeep was not going to be within the scheme of issues main as much as the World Cup 2023, which supplies you readability. They didn’t look in direction of that left armer as a wicket-taking choice. I feel what they felt with Arshdeep was that he was missing within the middle-overs and couldn’t have the influence that he might have with the brand new ball.”
ICC World Cup 2023: Good sides the world over have one left-arm pacer – Dinesh Karthik
Dinesh Karthik highlighted the significance of left-arm pacers within the workforce and defined that they make a distinction. He additionally identified that every one high sides have a left-arm seamer of their workforce. He added:
“Will they miss a left-armer, sure. If a left armer was there of that high quality and type it should at all times make a distinction. You see all good sides the world over have one left arm pacer and will probably be fascinating to see how the workforce strains up towards different groups.”
India additionally performed Jaydev Unadkat within the ODI sequence towards West Indies just lately. The pacer bowled decently however even he wasn’t thought-about within the World Cup squad.
India ODI World Cup Squad
Rohit Sharma (c), Hardik Pandya (vc), Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Shreyas Iyer, KL Rahul, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Axar Patel, Ishan Kishan, Suryakumar Yadav.
