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India are playing a five-match T20 series against South Africa on home soil. Chasing India’s 212-run target in the first match of the series, which started in Delhi on June 9, South Africa won by 7 wickets to give India a 1-0 lead in the series. Following this, India is engaged in intense web training to retaliate and level the series in the 2nd match to be played in Cuttack on June 12.
While senior players like captain Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli have been retired earlier in the series, a lot of players who were unlucky in the recent IPL series have been given a chance in this series. In addition, Tamil Nadu senior star Dinesh Karthik, who played for Bangalore, batted last time out from the first match and threatened to be the best finisher of this year’s IPL series like MS Dhoni.
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DK Returns:
In particular, he has batted brilliantly in the middle order for the last time in most of the matches in which batsmen such as Virat Kohli, Captain Duplessis and Glenn Maxwell have stumbled, and can say that he has scored at least 4, 5 individual wickets. With the goal of playing for India in the T20 World Cup in Australia in October, he has been the black horse of Bangalore, scoring 330 runs in the last 16 matches in total.
He also amassed more runs at 183.33 than any other batsman like Russell or Liam Livingston, winning the Special Award for “Super Striker”. After 3 years of hard work, he is looking for an opportunity to play in the current South African series.
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Deepak Hooda:
He got the chance to face only 2 balls in the last over of the first match. Former India captain Gautam Gambhir has said that it would have been better if youngster Deepak Hooda, who was the best batsman in the middle order, had played for the Lucknow team, of which he had been a consultant, in place of Dinesh Karthik in the same IPL series.
He said that even if India loses the first match against South Africa, it does not need to make big changes in the second match. “Right now you are playing with Dinesh Karthik, so keep up with him. But it seems to me that it would have been nice if he had played for the form where Deepak Hooda is at that point. And he is a young player. However, I do not feel the need to make changes in the next match for this. ”
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Gautam Gambhir said that Deepak Hooda, who is younger than Dinesh Karthik, who is 36 years old, may be playing for the future considering he is in good form, amassing 451 runs in 15 matches in the same IPL series. Also, Deepak Hooda, who made his debut in the recent West Indies series, has received many accolades. However, he said that Dinesh is a good player for Karthik and he does not need to make any changes for this.
Following are some of the suggestions he made to the Indian team to get back to winning ways in the 2nd match. “If the pitch is dry, we can put a cracker on the bench and give Ravi Bisnoi a chance. Hardik Pandya could act as the 3rd cracker.
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Having 2 wrist spinners will give you a chance to attack. However, if the field is small and spin bowling is not taken, we can play with the same team. ”
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