Red-hot Abhishek Sharma to be added to India's T20 World Cup squad? Harbhajan Singh makes huge claim

Abhishek Sharma and Travis Head, on Wednesday (May 8), came up with whirlwind half-centuries to power Sunrisers Hyderabad to a thumping 10-wicket over Lucknow Super Giants at the Rajiv Gandhi International Stadium.

On a pitch where the LSG batters struggled to time the ball, Travis Head and Abhishek Sharma just blew the bowlers away. Batting first, LSG recovered from 66 for 4 in the 12th over to post 165/4 in the allotted 20 overs thanks to an unbeaten 99-run stand between Ayush Badoni and Nicholas Pooran.

In reply, SRH chased down the total in just 9.4 overs without losing a wicket as they created history by chasing down the highest total inside 10 overs. Head and Abhishek Sharma went all out against the LSG bowlers right from the word go. While the Australian completed his fifty in just 16 balls, his Indian partner did it in 19 balls.

Both the batters matched each other shot for shot to get SRH back to winning ways. Head smashed an unbeaten 89 runs off just 30 balls with the help of eight fours and as many sixes. On the other hand, Abhishek Sharma scored 75 off 28 balls with the help of eight fours and six sixes.

With Abhishek Sharma once again impressing with his hard-hitting skills, former India spinner Harbhajan Singh wondered if it is still not too late to add the Punjab batsman, at least to the travelling reserves of India's T20 World Cup 2024 squad.

Soon after the game ended, the India great took to X to reveal that he was spellbound by Head and Sharma's batting before expressing his desire to see the latter in the India T20 World Cup squad.

"What just happened in Hyderabad! Travishead & IamAbhiSharma4 hitting sixes like taking singles. Chased 165 in 9.4 overs. Should Team India include Abhishek in the bench strength?" wrote Harbhajan.

What the hell just happened in Hyd 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯 #Travishead & @IamAbhiSharma4 Hitting sixes like taking singles. Chased 165 in 9.4 overs . Should Team India include Abhishek in the bench strenth ?? @IPL @BCCI @SunRisers 💥

— Harbhajan Turbanator (@harbhajan_singh) May 8, 2024

Abhishek Sharma in IPL 2024:

Abhishek Sharma has impressed one and all with his aggressive batting in IPL 2024. Such has been his batting this season that many even wanted him to open the innings for Team India in the upcoming ICC T20 World Cup 2024. 

In 12 games so far, he has scored 401 runs at a stunning strike-rate of 205.64. Among players who have scored more than 350 runs this season, only he and Head have a strike-rate of over 200. No player has hit more sixes than Abhishek Sharma this season as well. The southpaw has hit a staggering 35 sixes so far, three more than second-placed Sunil Narine.

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