Is Abhimanyu Ishwaran expected to get a chance after a poor performance?Image Credit Source: Getty Images
Team India’s new captain Shubman Gill and head coach Gautam Gambhir will prove to be very challenging for the next few weeks. During the 5 Test match series against England, both of them have a difficult decision of selection. Which player will get a chance in the playing XI and who can not depend on the match with the match. Many contenders are in front of Gill and Gambhir in the absence of veterans, but before the series starts, it seems clear that a player will not get a chance. These players are Abhimanyu Ishwar.
In the new cycle of the World Test Championship, the new pair of captain and coach for this first series of Team India has reached England. Gill-Gambhir has a challenge to do that, in which the rest of the Indian captains and coaches have failed for the last 18 years. This time this tour of England is also difficult because there are many new and many less experienced players in the team. In such a situation, expectations are slightly less than before. But on the other hand there is also a chance for many players to prove themselves. But it seems that Ishwaran has lost that opportunity even before the series begins.
In fact, the first class match series is being held between India A and England Lions before the Test series starting on June 20. This series has a match and the second match started on Friday 6 June. India-A started poorly in the first innings of the match and 2 wickets fell for 40 runs. First Yashasvi Jaiswal was dismissed for 17 runs and then captain Abhimanyu Ishwaran started scoring 11 runs. Jaiswal’s wicket fell due to a wrong decision because the umpire gave him a LBW out on the ball going outside the leg stump but it was not so in the case of Ishwaran. He was straight and clearly LBW out.
Ishwaran could score only 11 runs in this innings. In this way, in the first innings of both the matches, their share failure came. Ishwaran, who was captaining the team, was able to score only 8 runs in the first innings of the first match. In that match, Ishwaran had an opening with Jaiswal but did not get success. On the last day of the match in the second innings, he definitely played an innings of 68 runs but by then the situation had improved. This time he came at number three but could not walk.
With such a performance, it is now very difficult to select his Test match in the playing XI. Ishwar, who has shifted runs in domestic cricket, has been demanding a chance in the Test team many times, but whenever he is given a chance in India A team on a foreign tour, he is unable to take advantage of it. Earlier, he had also failed badly in India A’s matches played on Australia tour. In such a situation, if the coach Gambhir and Captain Gill do not give them a single chance on this entire tour, it would not be surprising.