India’s Nitish Kumar Reddy (PTI Photo)
India began the five-match series with an eight-wicket win on Tuesday after bowling out the West Indies for 171 and chasing down the target with 32 balls to spare. This was a pitch on which 200 should have been scored easily. Your batting was extremely ordinary, and you reached 170,” he said.
My thinking and the Indian team’s alignment are not sitting together,” he said in a video shared on his YouTube channel, ‘Aakash Chopra. Former India opener Aakash Chopra believes the team management’s selection thinking does not currently match his own, questioning the decision to leave out Nitish Kumar Reddy from the first T20I against the West Indies in Lucknow. “The spinners took eight (seven) wickets. Personally, I would put my hand up. I thought Nitish Kumar Reddy should have been played. If you are not going to play Nitish now, when are you going to play him? “However, there is one thing for sure. This team has great confidence in Naman Dhir. They feel this guy has a huge upside, which is correct. He bats very well, and they are repeatedly making him bowl along with that. Only five bowlers were used, and he picked up three wickets, where he also applied his brain,” the cricketer-turned-commentator observed. “Kuldeep Yadav picked up two wickets. Axar Patel bowled the sixth over as a maiden and picked up Rovman Powell’s wicket in that. West Indies, you didn’t bat well. “You left a lot on the pitch. Hope scored a fifty and another fifty by Sherfane Rutherford, but what happened in the middle was avoidable. Mayank Yadav was slightly expensive. It felt like he was slightly rusty, as he is returning from injury and hasn’t played a lot of cricket,” Chopra observed.