What will happen if Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill are removed from the team? What did the batting coach say about Sarfaraz and Rajat Patidar?
Vikram Rathore PC: Preparations for the second Test between India and England are now in the final stages. Both the teams are currently practicing for the match starting from February 2. Also the coach and team management are considering the strategy. After poor performance in the first match, can Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill be dropped from the playing eleven of the second match? Also, can Sarfaraz and Rajat Patidar be given a chance? This question remains the biggest at this time. Meanwhile, two days before the match, Indian team’s batting coach Vikram Rathore has come forward and removed the curtain on this entire matter.
What did Vikram Rathore say on Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill?
Shreyas Iyer is not scoring runs at the moment. He flopped badly in the first and second innings of the first test. Even before this his game had not been anything special. But when the team wins, all these things become hidden, but after defeat they quickly emerge. Similar is the condition of Shubhman Gill. When he was an opener, he was scoring runs, but as soon as he came to number three, runs stopped coming from his bat. He doesn’t even have a half-century to his name till now. Now can any other player take his place? Talking about this, batting coach Vikram Rathore said that there are many young batsmen in the team who have not played much Test cricket. Therefore, we will have to have some patience with them. He believes that the kind of batsmen Shubhman Gill, Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shreyas Iyer are, their bats will start scoring runs in the coming times. From this it seems that whether it is about Shubman Gill or Shreyas Iyer, both are going to be seen playing in the next match.
Batting coach’s statement regarding Sarfaraz Khan and Rajat Patidar
Regarding Sarfaraz Khan and Rajat Patidar, who were recently included in the team as new entries, Vikram Rathore said that it will be a difficult choice to include them in the team or not. The batting coach says that the kind of performance Sarfaraz and Rajat have shown, they are super players. He said that we all have seen the performance that Rajat and Sarfaraz have shown in domestic cricket in recent times. But if one has to be selected for the playing eleven, then this task in itself becomes very difficult. After this, he left the answer to captain Rohit Sharma and head coach Rahul Dravid as to who should be fed and who not.
At least two changes are necessary in the playing eleven of Team India
The way Ravindra Jadeja and KL Rahul were out after the first match. As of now, it seems that two changes will be made in place of these two players. That means only one of Sarfaraz and Rajat will be given a chance in the playing eleven, while Washington Sundar can be given a chance as a spin all-rounder. However, the final playing eleven is likely to be announced only at 9 am on February 2, when captain Rohit Sharma will take the field for the toss. Must wait till then.
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