IND vs SL: India pacer Umran Malik has managed to start good in 2023 by picking two crucial wickets wicket during the T20Is and the ODIs vs Sri Lanka. India took an unassailable 2-0 lead over Sri Lanka in the ODIs after winning the T20I series 2-1.
With 2023 being an ODI World Cup year and India set to organise the mega event in October and November, former India left-arm pacer R.P. Singh thinks Malik will be in the reckoning for the quadrennial 50-over affair.
‘Umran is slowly improving’
“If you see the current situation, Umran Malik has got the pace and he’s slowly improving from a skill point of view and he can be a man for the long run. If you have a bowler who can bowl at 150+ speed and can make him bowl well with good skills, then he can be kept in the reckoning.”
“See, pace is pace and on wickets where there isn’t much spark, then the pace will be helpful for a team and can shake up opposition batters. But it needs to be seen how an important player like him can be nurtured and make him play the right way with ample rest so that he serves team and country very well and keep him safe from being injured,” he said in a virtual interaction organised by Sports18.
RP Singh praises Mavi
Along with Malik, young fast bowler Shivam Mavi also had a perfect start in his T20I debut by picking four wickets for 22 runs vs Sri Lanka. RP Singh stated that Mavi can be kept in the playing mix for the format with a T20 World Cup happening in 2024.
“He’s been a part of the Uttar Pradesh team and (I) have seen him at their academy many times. He’s an inswing bowler and has got the speed too. But there are three to four things which I see in a T20 bowler, like having a yorker, which isn’t that high for Mavi. He has the yorkers, but it would be only four out of ten times. It is something which he has to improve upon as he continues to be in the scheme of things.”
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