Mumbai: Former Indian Skipper Dilip Vengsarkar believes that the opening of Ruturaj Gaikwad, who has been in red-hot form, after cracking three consecutive hundreds of Maharashtra in the Hazare Vijay trophy in Rajkot, now must be “directly” being picked for the Three-who will come.
Match the ODI series in South Africa.
When he came out for 21 against Uttarakhand on Sunday, on Saturday, Gaikwad scored 124 balls from 129 balls against Kerala, following the score 154 * (vs Chhattisgarh) & 136 (vs.
Madhya Pradesh) in the first two tournament matches.
The opening was the top scorer in the last IPL in September-October in the UAE, after cracking 635 running in 16 innings @ 45.35, in a calculation which included four years and reving.
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“You have to choose a man in shape.
How much else does he need to score a goal to prove himself? It’s time for voters to pick him up and give him the right opportunity,” Vengsarkar said on Sunday.
For notes, Gaikwad, playing for the second Indian side, playing two T20i against Sri Lanka in July, where he scored 35 runs.
With captain Rohit Sharma and Kl Rahul became ordinary opening, and Shikhar Dhawan and Ishan Kishan also in Medan, there was a rigid competition to open a slot on the Indian white team today.
“He can stare no 3 too.
He must be accommodated in the team,” Vengsarkar said.
The team for ODI is likely to be chosen after the league stage of the Hazare Vijay trophy.
For someone who, as chairman of the National Selection Committee, Indian Skipper Test Traced Virat Kohli quickly into the Indian team in 2008, Vengsarkar knew one or two things about children gathered for India at the right time.
“It’s not like Ruturaj 18 or 19.
He’s 24 now.
There’s no point in picking him up when he will be 28 years old,” Feeling Vengsarkar.
Vengsarkar was impressed with Gaikwad when he first saw the young man, who was only 10 years old, at his cricket academy at Pune.
Veteran test 116 then took him to Lancashire in England for exposure tourism.
Gaikwad in the form must be learned for ODIS in South Africa, said Vengsarkar
