In T20 cricket, the Indian cricket group continues to be battling the long-tail drawback. Even head coach Rahul Dravid admitted that there is a shortfall of all-rounders within the group. The fifth T20I between India and West Indies even noticed Tilak Varma bowl, taking the prized wicket of Nicholas Pooran. While Varma and Yashasvi Jaiswal have been backed to bowl extra typically by the Indian group administration, even former cricketers are lining up, backing this strategy by the Indian group.

Former Indian cricketer Aakash Chopra referred to as for the Indian group to push for batters who can bowl and provides kids like Yashasvi Jaiswal and Tilak Varma a protracted rope and encouragement to bowl as typically as attainable. He additionally referred to as for spin-bowling all-rounder Washington Sundar to turn into part of India’s scheme of issues in T20I format.

“Considering that most of the current Indian batters don’t bowl even a couple of overs, Indian team must start pushing for batters who do. Yashasvi-Tilak should be given a longer rope…and encouraged to bowl as often as possible. Washington has to be in India’s T20 scheme of things too,” stated Chopra in a tweet on X (previously referred to as Twitter).

Considering that a lot of the present Indian batters do not bowl even a few overs, Indian group should begin pushing for batters who do. Yashasvi-Tilak must be given an extended rope…and inspired to bowl as typically as attainable. Washington must be in India’s T20 scheme of…

— Aakash Chopra (@cricketaakash) August 16, 2023

Indian stars like Rohit Sharma (11 worldwide wickets) and Virat Kohli (eight worldwide wickets) haven’t bowled since years regardless of rolling their arms a bit of their preliminary years, inflicting the group to lose out on the range and choices that they may have supplied with their part-time bowling. Also, newer stars like Shubman Gill, Shreyas Iyer and Suryakumar Yadav have performed as specialist batters.

But this was not the case with the Indian group of the outdated days, with batting stars like Sachin Tendulkar (201 worldwide wickets), Virender Sehwag (136 worldwide wickets), Sourav Ganguly (132 worldwide wickets), Yuvraj Singh (148 worldwide wickets) and Suresh Raina (62 worldwide wickets) being extraordinarily succesful with the ball and had the flexibility to choose up essential wickets simply when their group wanted.

The lack of batters who can bowl has brought on the group to be closely depending on their full-time bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Kuldeep Yadav, Yuzvendra Chahal, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umran Malik, Umesh Yadav and so on with all-rounders Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and bowling all-rounders Shardul Thakur, Axar Patel and Ravichandran Ashwin being the one gamers offering the group with much-needed depth and choices as a result of their capabilities and consistency with each bat and ball.

Tilak (14 wickets in first-class, List A and T20 cricket) and Yashasvi (seven wickets throughout all codecs on the home degree) got the ball throughout the remaining T20I in opposition to West Indies, which India misplaced. India misplaced the sequence 2-3. During the sequence, India’s batting depth was a key difficulty.

Notably, forward of the fourth T20I in opposition to the Windies, Indian bowling coach Paras Mhambrey had stated that the group is working with Yashasvi and Tilak on their bowling.

“When you have someone who can chip in, it is nice. I have seen Tilak and Yashasvi bowl since U19 days. They are capable of being good bowlers. They can work on it at this level. When you got options like these, it is nice to have them. We will see them bowl soon hopefully, we are working on it. It will take time. Soon, we will see them bowling an over at least,” stated Paras in a pre-match press convention.

Coming to Sundar, he has performed 123 T20s and scored 1,147 runs at a median of 19.44 and a strike fee of over 120, with three fifties in 80 innings. He additionally has 93 wickets within the format with one of the best figures of three/10.

For India, he has performed 35 T20Is, scoring 107 runs with a half-century and having taken 29 wickets.

With ANI inputs