Royal Challengers Bangalore are on top of the points table with four wins in four games so far in the tournament.
Till now there have been multiple performers in the team. First it was AB de Villers, then Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli, Harshal Patel, and yesterday the way Devdutt Padikkal has batted it showed complete temperament of the team.
Padikkal, 20, scored his first IPL century and has become a mainstay at the top of the order for RCB and after years an uncapped player has scored a ton in the tournament.
Former Indian captain Sunil Gavaskar has praised Devdutt batting and said that he has the ability to play all format of the game for team India.
“I won’t be surprised if he plays for India in any of the formats because he has got the class and the ability to do that. He is a heavy scorer in first-class cricket and Ranji Trophy as well gets big hundreds. In 50-overs cricket, he gets lots of runs and hundreds. Here, in the T20 domestic tournaments, he got lots of runs. So, I won’t be surprised if he is there sooner rather than later,” Gavaskar said on Star Sports.
“Karnataka has always produced a terrific line of batsmen. Gundappa Vishwanath, Rahul Dravid, then KL Rahul. And if KL Rahul, you know, some of the stars need to believe in themselves a little bit more. Sometimes you get the feeling that he doesn’t believe in himself. He is such a talented player And there is Mayank Agarwal, there is Karun Nair who got a triple hundred, he also needs to get his act together. It’s a terrific batting line-up Karnataka have,” Gavaskar added.
“And Devdutt Padikkal is another one in that long line of batsmen who have delighted the Indian cricket lovers,” he said.
Gavaskar said Padikkal is in list of great batting lineup which has come out of Karnataka which also includes Punjab Kings captain KL Rahul.