The second Test match between India and West Indies will be played from October 10. The match will be played at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. At the same time, Team India, led by Shubman Gill, registered a satisfactory victory in the first Test in Ahmedabad. The player who got a chance performed well. Only Sai Sudarshan could not redeem this opportunity.
In the second Test against the West Indies, there will be pressure on this 21 -year -old left -handed batsman to prove himself. If Sai failed to perform well, his leaf could be cut off from a 2 -match series against South Africa. India has at least 5 options which can be tried on this sequence.
The problem of playing at number 3 for Team India has been made for a long time. After Cheteshwar Pujara, Shubman Gill was tried on this sequence. Gill did not perform anything special on this sequence. After Virat Kohli’s retirement, he started playing at number 4 and has done a bang till now. Sai Sudarshan and Karun Nair were tried on this order on the England tour but both failed. The rest of the Indian batsmen performed a lot.
Where Karun Nair got Moka in 4 innings at number 3. During this, he scored 111 runs. In England, he scored 205 runs in 8 innings. In such a situation, he was dropped from the squad in the Test against the West Indies. Ajit Agarkar said that he was expected to perform very well from Karun. Sai Sudarshan has so far batted at number 3 but, in 7 matches he scored 147 runs at an average of 21, including a half -century.
At the same time, if Sai will not be able to run against the West Indies, then the next press conference of Agarkar will be for them. Because many players are in line to get a chance in Team India. The selector moved beyond Karun to give Sai a chance, but how long will Abhimanyu Ishwaran be ignored with an average of 48.5 in first class cricket is also arising.
4 players chief contenders
However, 4 players can fill the claim to play at number 3. Apart from Ishwaran, Rajat Patidar is scoring runs in the middle order and if he gets a chance to bat at number three, he will catch it with both hands. Dhruvajural, Devdutt Padikkal and Washington Sundar are also the major options for this position. Prior to the England series, there was a discussion about feeding Washington Sundar at number three. In the first Test against the West Indies, Jurael and Sundar got a chance in playing 11. Parkals are also part of the squad.