Left-arm India pacer Arshdeep Singh, who had a good IPL 2023, did not discover a spot within the Indian staff’s ODI squad for the upcoming tour to West Indies. The Rohit Sharma-led aspect is scheduled to play a three-match ODI sequence in opposition to the Caribbean aspect with the matches on July 27, July 29 and August 1. While Delhi Capitals pacer Mukesh Kumar bought a maiden nationwide call-up, Jaydev Unadkat, Mohammed Siraj and Umran Malik have been remainder of the pacers India chosen for the 50-over matches vs West Indies.

Former India captain Sunil Gavaskar feels that the omission from India’s ODI squad could possibly be a blessing in disguise for Arshdeep as it might encourage the pacer to enhance his recreation and provides back-to-back spectacular performances to regain his spot into the nation’s ODI squad.

“Sometimes maybe being left out of the team is also great incentive to try and pick up heaps of wickets. Maybe that is what Arshdeep needs to do. He needs to pick 5-fors continuously and then he will be automatically picked for the team,” Gavaskar advised Sports Today.

Meanwhile, Gavaskar additionally put his belief within the left-arm pacer and claimed that he’s going to play an important position for Team India throughout all three codecs.

“He is the future in all formats. He has already started to do little bit well in England in county cricket. Just like Jaspreet Bumrah came on as a T20 bowler and went on to spearhead the Indian bowling attack. Arshdeep Singh is somebody who can play all formats of the game and you need to encourage him to do that,” mentioned the legend.