The gifted Vidharbha wicketkeeper-batter, Jitesh Sharma, has been named within the Indian squad for the Asian Video games scheduled to happen in Hangzhou from September 23. The 29-year-old has been rewarded for his distinctive performances within the Indian Premier League 2023. Notably, it’s his second call-up to the Indian staff after he was chosen as a substitute for Sanju Samson within the T20I sequence towards Sri Lanka earlier this 12 months.
Lately, Jitesh revealed the dialog he had with the Indian head coach, Rahul Dravid, throughout his time with the staff. He revealed that the pinnacle coach informed him to proceed batting the best way he’s been batting. Dravid additionally revealed that Staff India are on a hunt for gamers like him to play an necessary position coming in at quantity 5 – 6 slot.
“Sure, I had discussions with Rahul sir, after I was chosen in the course of the house season a couple of months again. He mentioned ‘Jaise batting kar rahein ho, waise hello karte raho. Aur yehi dekh rahe hain hum future ke liye. Humein aise gamers hello chahiye is place ke liye.’ (The way in which you’re batting, proceed in the identical vein. We’re particularly searching for gamers like these for sure batting positions (Nos 5 and 6),” Jitesh was quoted as saying by News18.
Notably, in the course of the IPL 2023, Jitesh performed the position of the finisher for Punjab Kings as he amassed 309 runs in 14 innings at a median of 23.76 and a strike charge of 156.06 with one half-century to his title. Within the 90 T20 matches performed in his profession up to now, he has scored 2096 runs at a median of 29.11 with 100 and 9 fifties to his title, respectively.
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The wicketkeeper batter has additionally inflicted 71 dismissals (57 catches and 14 stumpings). Aside from him Yashasvi Jaiswal, Tilak Varma, Rinku Singh, Mukesh Kumar and his Punjab Kings teammate Prabhsimran Singh have additionally obtained a call-up for the Asian Video games. Ruturaj Gaikwad has been entrusted with the captaincy duties for the event, the place India have already certified for the quarterfinals being the highest-ranked Asian staff.
Notably, Cricket has beforehand been performed in two editions of the Asian Video games up to now particularly in Guangzhou (2010) and Incheon (2014). Sri Lanka are the defending champions, whereas Bangladesh gained the inaugural version. However, Afghanistan completed second in each editions.
