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With less than 15 days to go before the start of the ICC T20 World Cup 2022 series, all the teams in the world are gearing up in the final stages to win the trophy. In that way, the Indian cricket team led by Rohit Sharma, who is preparing to win the trophy after 2007, has won all the bilateral series in the last one year and is entering the series as the number T20 team in the world.
However, with all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja already out of the announced squad, leading fast bowler Jasprit Bumrah’s last-minute exit through injury has given India a major setback. Because Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshideep Singh, the other Indian bowlers who have made it to the World Cup can only bowl at a speed of 130 kmph and are the ones who provide runs in the last overs.
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Tata to Natarajan:
However, Deepak Sahar and Shami, who are on the stand-by list, are expected to be included in the first team to make up for Bumrah’s absence. In this case, the World Cup Indian team led by Rohit Sharma will leave for Australia on October 6 after completing the last T20I series against South Africa before the World Cup.
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But Sahar and Shreyas Iyer, who are on the stand-by list, are set to leave for Australia a week late after completing the ODI series against South Africa. In order to deal with left-arm fast bowlers like Mitchell Starc and Trent Boult in Australia, there are reports that BCCI is planning to send 2 young Indian left-arm fast bowlers, Mukesh Chaudhary and Chetan Zakharia, when the stand-by list players including Deepak Sahar travel to Australia.
Along with them, Umran Malik, Kuldeep Sen and a total of 4 Indian bowlers are going to fly to Australia as net bowlers. But even in this list, Natarajan of Tamil Nadu is not included, which has made the fans of Tamil Nadu angry. Because Natarajan, who performed brilliantly in the IPL series and made his international cricket debut on Australian soil in 2020, made his debut in all 3 types of cricket on that tour and played an important role in India’s victories.
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However, he unfortunately got injured after that tour and did not play the entire IPL 2021 series as well. Since then, the selection committee and the team management have been removing him for the past one year without giving him another chance after recovering from his injury. Fans have been continuously questioning why the team management including Rohit Sharma, who dusted off Umesh Yadav after 3 years and brought him back after 3 years, did not choose Natarajan.
In that situation, it is okay if Bumrah is not selected in the World Cup team and in the stand-by list, at least he could have been included as a net bowler. Because in 2020 Natarajan got a chance to go as a net bowler when the main bowlers were injured and made his debut in all 3 types of cricket.
India have always underperformed in ICC events bcoz of clown selection & now with Shami coming in for Bumrah.
How these ???? selectors & team management talk about backing players but forgot to back Natarajan who did so well in ???????? in T20I series.#T20WorldCup #CricketTwitter— Kriti Singh ???????? (@kritiitweets) October 4, 2022
@BCCI Please try some good options like Natarajan who was already played good in australian soil.
— Kasilingam (@iKasiLingam) October 3, 2022
In addition, in the situation where left-handed bowlers are needed as a net bowler, Natarajan, who has more skill than Zakharia and Mukesh Chaudhary and who has already played in Australian soil, is more suitable, the fans express. However, it is noteworthy that BCCI continues to ignore the demands of the fans as if Natarajan has no more chance.
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