After Rohit Sharma’s arrival, he focused more on overhauling the middle order and showed that if the openers are out early, the team is unlikely to score big in the future. Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Hardik Pandya and Dinesh Karthik have been performing brilliantly.
Again the problem:
With Rohit Sharma fixing this problem, India were no longer considered an unstoppable team. It was then that Bumrah withdrew from the Asia Cup due to injury. Also, Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Arshdeep Singh are also out. In short, the Indian team currently lacks a reliable fast bowler.
Rohit Project:
Rohit Sharma always has a habit of replacing a player with a similar performance. Take Jadeja for example. After he withdrew due to injury, it was thought that Ashwin would get a chance, but Axar Patel, a left-arm bowler who can act like Jadeja, has been brought into the team and given a place in the T20 World Cup team.
Not so in the case of Bumrah:
However, it seems that Rohit did not take such a decision regarding Bumrah. D Natarajan is the only one who can act as Bumrah’s replacement. He can bowl slow balls, cutter balls, yorkers etc. in the death overs. Apart from that, a left-arm bowler is an extra speciality. What is more special is that he performed tremendously in the Indian team that toured Australia last time and made the Aussie batsmen tremble.
Natarajan is right:
It is surprising that the Indian team has ignored such a special Natarajan and is considering Siraj and Shami as replacement players. In this, Siraj also made a couple of catches against South Africa in the last match. On a pace-friendly pitch, Wary delivered runs without taking a single wicket. Shami has not played T20 matches since the last IPL 15th season. Not only that, there is no one who performs well in the death overs.
In such a situation, the fans are questioning why they are hanging on to these two bowlers, leaving Natarajan behind. There is a deadline of October 15 to announce a replacement for Bumrah.