India Great Against Tilak Varma Debut In World Cup. Explains Why | Cricket News

Tilak Varma has been a breath of recent air within the Indian cricket crew. He is left-handed and has proven the precise intent within the middle-order within the few matches that he has performed for the Indian T20I crew. The results of that’s that he has been rewarded with a spot in India’s Asia Cup squad. However, with KL Rahul and Shreyas Iyer additionally being chosen, Varma may not get many probabilities within the Indian crew’s taking part in XI. The 20-year-old Tilak has up to now performed seven T20Is, scored 174 runs. In 25 List A matches, he has scored 1236 runs at a mean of 56.18.

Though he’s already being spoken of as a World Cup squad materials too. 1983 World Cup winner Kris Srikkanth feels he shouldn’t be given debut in large occasions.

“Do not give Tilak Varma debut in a big tournament, play him in the ODI series before that,” Srikkanth mentioned on his YouTube channel Cheeky Cheeka.

“Tilak has fantastic potential, a brilliant player – but he has to play a couple of one-day series before putting him in the WC squad. We need to groom him properly,” he added.

Former India cricketer and BCCI selector, Saba Karim feels Tilak’s choice alone reveals the boldness the selectors and crew administration have in him

At instances, the selectors and the crew administration can again a participant after what they’ve seen within the floor. There’s no hurt in selecting a participant from T20 format to One-day format. One must also not neglect that Tilak has had some type of expertise in List A matches,” he said on Jio Cinema.