ICC Cricket World Cup 2023: Since Yuvraj Singh, the Indian ODI cricket team has not been able to find a perfect number-4 batsman. India has given opportunity to different batsmen for this number in the last 5-6 years, but no batsman has been able to prove his role. However, just before the start of the World Cup, the captain of Team India had said about the problem of number-4, “Last one day world cup This (problem) has been following us since the 1970s, and maybe it was a problem during the time of Virat (Kohli) and (Ravi) Shastri, but I say with confidence that our (Rohit Sharma and Rahul Dravid) This has not been an issue in time.”
Rohit’s tension over the problem of number 4 ended
Team India captain has never had any problem for the number-4 position, because he knew that he has a capable batsman for this position, who is in the race to get fit, and till the start of the World Cup. Will come back to the team. Talking about it to The Indian Express, he told, “We have Shreyas Iyer. He just got injured, so some players were being tried in his place, and he could not take advantage of the opportunity. ‘Hawa’ She has come back once again, but I already knew that Shreyas would come back, so I never lost sleep over this problem. He (Shreyas) has been perfect for us.”
For a long time, there has not been any batsman like Shreyas Iyer in the Indian cricket team, who has a counter-attacking game from the first ball. Perhaps Suresh Raina was a similar batsman to some extent, but at that time Yuvraj Singh played so well that his time was different. He knew how to make matches, and played according to the situation. At that time, Yuvraj Singh used to play slowly, because he knew that if he stayed till the end, the team would have more chances of winning. Iyer also plays according to the situation, but his way of reading the game and his role is different. They counterattack because they know that if the environment changes, the danger will also be averted. Even if he gets out, there is KL Rahul behind him, who can play the role of anchor. In this way, by staying behind Rahul, Iyer’s counterattack provides a great balance to the team.
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