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Shreyas Iyer‘s harm and three back-to-back failures for Suryakumar Yadav in ODIs have as soon as once more put Team India in the identical boat as within the 2019 ODI World Cup, feels former pacer Zaheer Khan. Leading to the mega occasion 4 years again, India have been struggling to discover a everlasting batter on the quantity 4 place. It was one of many causes that the crew couldn’t advance after the semi-final of the event. The 50-over World Cup will probably be happening in India this time and Zaheer feels that the host crew must relook on the quantity 4 batting place.
Suryakumar Yadav — who was anticipated to take the position of India’s ODI common quantity 4 batter Iyer — registered three consecutive golden geese within the recently-concluded ODI collection towards Australia, placing clouds of uncertainity over the way forward for the batting place.
“The batting order is something which they will have to definitely look at again. They will have to figure out the number 4 option again. That is something which was the discussion leading to the 2019 World Cup as well. We are talking about four years down the line now if we are in the same boat. Yes, I understand Shreyas Iyer was your designated number 4. You are really looking at him taking that role and responsibility but if he is going to be injured now for the longer time then you have to really find these answers,” Zaheer mentioned on Cricbuzz.
It is price noting that India skipper Rohit Sharma had backed underfire batter Suryakumar on the press convention after the facet’s loss within the third and decider ODI towards Australia.
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