Sunil Gavaskar questions Cheteshwar Pujara’s omission from India’s take a look at squad

In an interplay with Sports activities At present, Gavaskar stated, “Why has he been made the scapegoat for our batting failures? He has been a loyal servant of Indian cricket, a quiet and in a position achiever. However as a result of he does not have tens of millions of followers on no matter platforms who would make a noise in case he will get dropped, you drop him? That’s one thing past understanding,”

“Clearly just one man has been singled out whereas the others additionally failed. To me, the batting failed (in WTC closing). Aside from Ajinkya Rahane, there was no person who bought any runs. So why Pujara has been made the autumn man is one thing the selectors want to elucidate,” Gavaskar added 

The previous India opening batter additionally questioned the factors for dropping Pujara whereas retaining different gamers within the staff. Gavaskar argued that the present era of gamers are very match and might play until the age of 39 or 40 so long as they’re scoring runs or taking wickets.

Cheteshwar Pujara was dropped from India’s squad for the two-Take a look at sequence in opposition to the West Indies in July. Younger openers Ruturaj Gaikwad and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been known as up for the sequence, with one among them anticipated to take Pujara’s place at No 3.

India misplaced the World Cup closing to Australia by 209 runs. Pujara scored a complete of 41 runs within the two innings of the Take a look at match. He scored 14 runs within the first innings and 27 runs within the second. In the meantime, most of India’s batters additionally struggled to seek out their footing within the swinging situations at The Oval, with the staff scoring simply 296 and 234 runs within the two innings of the Take a look at match.

Up to date: 24 Jun 2023, 11:05 AM IST