In T20 World Cup 2024, not Ishan or Pant, this player will do wicketkeeping, Team India has won many matches
Team India: After the failure of the World Cup 2023, the Board of Control for Cricket in India and Team India have now started preparations for the T20 World Cup 2024 to be played in June next year. . Captain Rohit Sharma and the team management would like to correct all the mistakes they made in the World Cup 2023 final in this upcoming mega tournament.
In this sequence, Team India can ignore Ishan Kishan or Rishabh Pant and try another option for wicketkeeping. Let us tell you who that player is and how his performance has been so far.
This wicketkeeper will get a chance in T20 World Cup
Young batsman Ishan Kishan performed well in the recently concluded home T20 series against Australia. He played two half-century innings in three matches. But if we look at his over T20 career, he has not been that good. Especially Ishaan's strike rate is very low as per modern cricket. At the same time, it does not seem possible for Rishabh Pant, who was injured in a road accident last year, to be fit for the T20 World Cup 2024.
In such a situation, Rohit Sharma and Ajit Agarkar have an excellent option in the form of Jitesh Sharma, who has shown very good performance in recent times.
Jitesh's career has been like this
30 year old Jitesh Sharma got a chance to play in the last 2 matches of the home T20 series against Australia. He took full advantage of this opportunity and played good innings. Jitesh has scored runs at an excellent strike rate of 164.1 in the 5 T20 international matches played for Team India so far.
Apart from this, in IPL 2022, he scored 234 runs in 12 matches for Punjab Kings at a strike rate of 163.64, while in IPL 2023, he scored 309 runs at a strike rate of 156.06.
Whereas, if we talk about domestic cricket, the right-handed wicketkeeper batsman has scored 632 runs in 17 first class matches at an average of 25.28. At the same time, in 47 List A matches, Jitesh has scored 1350 runs at an average of 32.14, in T20 format 2208 runs at an average of 28.30 and strike rate of 149.08.
