No place for Shikhar Dhawan in ODI squad if India is aiming for 325-350 par rating: Saba Karim

Former cricketer Saba Karim is of the opinion that Shikhar Dhawan would not discover a place within the crew if India are aiming to get a giant par rating. Dhawan’s place has come beneath severe scrutiny after his poor run of kind.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Dec 12, 2022 12:48 IST

Dhawan’s spot within the crew has come beneath scrutiny (Courtesy: Reuters)

By India Today Web Desk: Saba Karim has claimed that Shikhar Dhawan won’t have a spot within the lineup if the Indian crew administration is seeking to have par rating of 325-350 going ahead.

Dhawan had a torrid time with the bat in the course of the recently-concluded ODI collection towards Bangladesh. Ishan Kishan’s double hundred and Shubman Gill’s good for has put a query mark over the veteran opener’s spot within the lineup.

Karim, throughout a dialogue on Sony Sports Network as quoted by Hindustan Times, mentioned that Dhawan won’t be part of the ODI crew lineup if the crew administration is on the lookout for a par rating of 325-350.

“It will depend on the team management, that what sort of cricket they are wanting to play. If the team management still believes that 275-300 is their aim, then you need Shikhar Dhawan because he is still that kind of a player.”

“It is a different thing that he has not scored runs in this series. But if you give him an opportunity again and tell him that we have to score 275-300 only, Shikhar Dhawan’s place will be there till the World Cup. But if we have decided that our par score will be 325-350, there is no place for Dhawan,” mentioned Karim.

Karim additionally made a daring declare about Dhawan and his strike-rate, saying that we can not anticipate a giant knock from him at a excessive tempo.

“So a lot will depend on the selectors and the team management, the captain, that what expectation you have. If you expect that Shikhar Dhawan will play a big knock at a strike rate of 130-140 in a 350-run game, it is not going to happen.”

“I feel in the coming times, we have to achieve a lot. I feel we are two to three years behind in white-ball cricket and to get there we will need new players, players like Ishan Kishan, Shubman Gill, Suryakumar Yadav, Ruturaj Gaikwad and Prithvi Shaw,” mentioned Karim.

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Dec 12, 2022