Ishan Kishan Is Doing What He Can Do: Graeme Smith On Left-Hander’s Chances For T20 World Cup
Published - 19 Jun 2022, 07:12 PM | Updated - 23 Aug 2024, 12:09 AM
Ishan Kishan is a favorite for India’s T20 World Cup 2022 squad said former South Africa captain Graeme Smith. Kishan has been in very good form on the ongoing five-T20I series against South Africa with two-half-centuries to his name.
Team India registered a brilliant comeback in the T20I series against South Africa, coming from 0-2 down to level the series with the final game on Sunday in Bengaluru. Kishan is currently the highest run-scorer in the series with 191 runs in 4 games at a strike rate of 146.92.
Kishan with his amazing batting and the fact that he is a pure keeper has made his candidature for the Indian team squad for the upcoming T20 World Cup 2022 quite clear, putting pressure on selectors, and the captain, especially with the failure of Rishabh Pant with the bat.
What Ishan Kishan Can Do Is Perform And He’s Doing It Very Well: Graeme Smith
Former South Africa captain Graeme Smith spoke in detail about the young left-handed batter while discussing India’s T20 World Cup prospects. The T20 tournament takes place in October-November in Australia, and Smith said that Ishan is doing all he can to lock a berth in the squad for the tournament.
“He’s doing what he can do. All you can do as a young player is perform, and he’s doing it. He’s putting his hand up, and he’s applying a lot of pressure on the selectors, the captains, the coaches.
“You have to be aware that in the background, there are very experienced and very successful cricketers who will come back into this Indian lineup. Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, Virat Kohli is around, I don’t what the plan in the T20 cricket with him is.
There are lot of question marks on the combination that the Indian team will set up. But what Ishan Kishan can do is perform, and that’s what he’s doing very well,” Smith told cricket.com.
Ishan, meanwhile, is also part of the T20I squad for the two-T20I series against Ireland later this month.
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