Lack of a correct spinner can damage India’s World Cup probabilities: Ranatunga

Former Sri Lanka captain Arjuna Ranatunga is aware of a factor or two about profitable a World Cup within the subcontinent, having taken his facet to victory in 1996, and he believes India lacks a ‘proper’ spinner forward of the 2023 version and would do properly to incorporate Ravichandran Ashwin within the squad.

“India has good all-round spinners, but I can’t see a proper spinner in this side. Pakistan and England have proper spinners. India has [Ravindra] Jadeja and Axar [Patel]. I feel they should have Ashwin in the squad. He can be a match-winner for you. He may be slightly older and slower, but you need guys in the subcontinent who can contain and take wickets,” he stated throughout an interplay with choose media on Friday.

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Ashwin and Washington Sundar had been overlooked of India’s World Cup squad, introduced earlier this month, sparking a debate concerning the lack of an off-spinner within the workforce.

Ranatunga, nonetheless, charges Kuldeep Yadav extremely and stated that the left-arm wrist-spinner can be an important cog in India’s World Cup marketing campaign.

“Kuldeep is a match-winning bowler. He is the only wicket-taking bowler I can see; he showed that in the last two games [of the Asia Cup]. You need someone like him. He will be the controlling factor for India,” the 59-year-old stated.

The former skipper, who had world-class batters like Sanath Jayasuriya and Aravinda de Silva contributing to his workforce even with the ball, additionally identified that the dearth of batters who can bowl on this Indian line-up was regarding.

“Nobody in the Indian top-order bowls. That can be a big disadvantage. [Ravindra] Jadeja, you can’t consider him as a top batsman or a top bowler. For me, an all-rounder in the subcontinent should be a batsman who can bowl or a bowler who can bat. That is something missing for India,” he defined.

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The India workforce administration has tried to tide over that challenge by together with Shardul Thakur and Axar Patel within the squad, who can add useful runs with the bat within the decrease order.

Ranatunga heaped reward on the Indian tempo unit and stated that the truth that India may afford to bench somebody like Mohammed Shami was an affidavit to the standard of its assault.

While score India as one of many favourites to elevate the World Cup, Ranatunga cautioned that the help of the house crowd can be a double-edged sword.

“India will have a huge advantage and disadvantage playing in front of the home crowd, which will put a lot of pressure on the team,” he remarked.