After the injury to all-rounder Washington Sundar, Ayush Badoni has got a place in Team India for the remaining two ODI matches against New Zealand. Former cricketer and commentator Akash Chopra has raised questions regarding this. The question is whether there is a lack of coordination between the team management and the selection committee of BCCI? Do the duo of captain Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir and the selection committee led by Ajit Agarkar have different thinking about the team and its needs? Chopra has raised these questions keeping all-rounder Nitish Kumar Reddy at the center.
Papua New Guinea
131/6
20.0 ov
zimbabwe
40/0
6.0 ov
Zimbabwe needs 92 runs from 84 balls at an average of 6.57 per over.
bangladesh
151/3
20.0 ov
Netherlands
73/3
11.0 over
Netherlands need 79 runs from 54 balls at an average of 8.77 per over.
ireland
200/7
20.0 ov
Nepal
12/1
4.0 ov
Nepal needs 189 runs in 96 balls at an average of 11.81 per over.
Nitish Reddy puzzle
Aakash Chopra said that this 22 year old all-rounder is being included in almost every squad of Team India but he is hardly being given a chance. Even when the opportunity is being given, its full potential is not being utilized. Aakash Chopra said in his video shared on X, ‘Is there no coordination between the selector and the coaching staff? I am not able to understand what is going on with Nitish Reddy. He is being selected in every format. When he is bowled, he does not bat and bowls very few balls.
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Chopra said, ‘Selectors are selecting him in white-ball cricket but he is not getting matches. There was a lot of dew visible during the series with South Africa. Fast bowlers were being used a lot. The spinners were not getting any help but even then Nitish Reddy was not used.
‘Reddy is in the team but he is not fully utilized’
Akash Chopra further said, ‘And when we reach Vadodara, the same story happens again that Nitish Kumar Reddy is not fed. The question again arises that why is it that the selectors think that it is necessary to select Nitish. He provides a balance to the team. They prepare for the future that what would happen if Hardik Pandya never happens… but the team management does not think this. He said, ‘They (team management) say that we do not want Nitish Kumar Reddy. Should we play with 2 spinners or 3 spinners? In our scheme of things, Nitish Kumar Reddy is not set and when he is, he is either batting or bowling, not doing both together. What’s really going on? If he has to sit out, it would have been better if he had played in the Vijay Hazare Trophy. Reddy has played 2 ODIs and 4 T20 Internationals for Team India so far. This is the situation when he has been a part of almost every squad for almost a year. It seems that he is being groomed as a backup to Hardik Pandya but even when Pandya does not play, he hardly gets a chance.
