Where Can India Improve Ahead Of ICC World Cup 2023? Dinesh Karthik Points Out Two Key Areas | Cricket News

The ICC World Cup 2023 is simply not far away and veteran Indian cricket staff star Dinesh Karthik believes that the Rohit Sharma-led facet has a few key areas the place they might nonetheless want to enhance. In a latest interplay, Karthik was requested about India’s probabilities within the World Cup and he made it clear that they first want to make use of the upcoming Asia Cup as a chance to make the ultimate tweaks to the staff composition. When requested concerning the actual locations which want nice tuning, he spoke concerning the fast-bowling choices and the dilemma surrounding the middle-order batting.

“There are two areas (India must identify at the Asia Cup),” Karthik stated throughout a World Cup industrial shoot with Emirates. “No.1. Who is the fourth medium pacer. We have Jasprit (Bumrah), we have (Mohammad) Shami and we have (Mohammad) Siraj. We are sure about all of these three, but who is going to be the fourth?

“Is it going to be Shardul Thakur? Is it going to be Prasidh Krishna? Mukesh Kumar? Or are you going to go for the tempo of Umran Malik?,” he added.

Karthik was also concerned about the possible choices when it comes to the middle-order.

“Do we’d like a left hander? Do we take a look at Tilak Varma or is Suryakumar (Yadav) that possibility as he performs all of the sweeps which can be obtainable within the recreation, makes it arduous for spinners and is an excellent participant of spin as nicely.”

“So who is the back-up batter. That is the next question. These are the two areas for me and I think these are the two big things India must be answering during this Asia Cup,” he concluded.