There are many challenges for the place Rinku Singh is targeting: Ashish Nehra

Bengaluru (Uttam Hindu News) – Former India fast bowler Ashish Nehra believes that middle-order batsman Rinku Singh’s chances of making the Indian team for next year’s Men’s T20 World Cup are looking bright, although at the same time The finisher also faces many challenges for a place in the playing eleven.

In the ongoing T20 series against Australia, Rinku has been strengthening her claim for a full-time position as a finisher in the Indian team through her sharp finishing at the end of the innings. He scored an unbeaten 22 off 14 balls to chase down the target of 209 runs in Visakhapatnam.
In Thiruvananthapuram he again scored unbeaten 31 runs off nine balls and in Raipur he played an attractive innings of 46 runs off 29 balls. With a steady head position and calmness from within, Rinku has been able to showcase his skills as a finisher, a role he does well for Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) in the IPL and for Uttar Pradesh in domestic cricket. Play with.

“There is no doubt that Rinku Singh is a contender to be included in India’s T20 World Cup squad. But the World Cup is still far away and there are many challenges in the place he is fighting for. You can see Jitesh Sharma (wicketkeeper batsman) and Tilak Verma. We have to discuss the positions where Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya will play.”

“So, we have to see how many places are available in the 15-member squad,” Nehra said on JioCinema ahead of the fifth T20I at the M Chinnaswamy Stadium on Sunday evening. But one thing is sure that he has opened everyone’s eyes and put everyone under pressure. But there is still a lot of time left. There is going to be a tour of South Africa after IPL.”

When asked whether India’s fast bowlers were conceding too many runs in the series, Nehra said that the host team was giving chances to others by resting the first-choice players and credited the fast bowlers for being a big positive for the team. Gave it to Mukesh Kumar.

“The conditions in the first three matches were different and a lot of bowlers have changed. Your experienced bowlers like Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj have been rested.”

“If you talk about Avesh Khan and Mukesh Kumar, they have just been introduced to international cricket. And then we saw more than 200 runs scored in the first three matches. Therefore, it is not that only the Indian bowlers gave away runs, but the Australian bowlers also gave away a lot of runs.

He concluded, “Under these circumstances, Mukesh Kumar has been a big positive for India. The way he has bowled with wet balls, his yorker performance and bowling in the death overs has been excellent. ,