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MELBOURNE: Rishabh PantThe disappointing opening game against Zimbabwe is not a cause for concern for the head coach Rahul Dravidwho suggested that brilliant lefties could start in T20 World Cup Semi-Final against England in Adelaide on Thursday.
Pant was left out of the first four games as veteran Dinesh Karthik, who is likely to play his final global encounter, was given the finisher role.
With Karthik unable to compete on bowler-friendly Australian tracks, Pant has returned to the equation.
“I don’t think we judge people on a game, and sometimes whether or not we play them is based on a game,” Dravid said after India’s 71-time win, which included Pant’s contribution. just three.
Then, Dravid gave a good enough indication that the decision to put Pant on was not made in isolation as the coach is likely to consider a match with foot spinner Adil Rashid in the semi-finals. .
“Sometimes it’s just the matches,” said Dravid. “We need to look at what skills we might need against the bowlers we might run into. So a lot of things come in,” said Dravid. decisions of this kind”.

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Rishabh Pant and Virat Kohli (AFP Photo)
He also firmly states that the team leadership has never lost faith in Pant.
“Yeah, in a sense it’s not like we’ve ever lost faith in Rishabh. We believe in all 15 players who play here. Only 11 can play and that depends on the game. combination you have.
“The fact that they are here and part of the World Cup means that we put a lot of faith in them. It means that at any moment they can be called up to the team of the year.
“Yes, you can only play 11 games at a time and some people sometimes miss and don’t need to play, but again, Rishabh is someone many of you have seen, come with us. .
“He hit the ball a lot into the net, he hit a lot of the ball, practiced a lot and practiced and kept himself ready. He reasoned.
In fact, Dravid was happy about Pant’s intentions against left-hander Sean Williams but the execution went wrong.
“Obviously things didn’t go well today, but not at all – I don’t mind it at all because I think he made the right choice.
“His job was to take over the left camera that was already there, sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn’t.”
Pant being left-handed also gives the team the distinction between professional hitters.

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Rishabh Pant (AFP Photo)
“It also gives us a chance to play Rishabh sometimes, obviously keeping this game in mind but just keeping the future in mind, opening up our options.
“I think everyone is available to choose from; just because someone missed this game doesn’t mean we can’t go back to him and we can’t decide – we can We can go the other way,” said Dravid, trying to highlight a potential change in the lineup.
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Dravid said captain Rohit Sharma deliberately hit the ball after the win because they wanted to defend when looking at the semi-final in Adelaide.
“Some of the things that we want to achieve is to try and beat first if we have the chance.
“Obviously, we needed to win for that. Just because, to be honest, we were bowling against Pakistan when we got here, we just wanted to experience the feeling of fixing the score in things. What’s a case like this?”

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He also wants his batters to hit the full 20 overstrikes.
“Also, we felt that if we hit the ball first, it would give us the opportunity to play 20 rounds and just get there by still trying to hit a par, the plus point. before.”
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Dravid is not a giver when it comes to playing 11 but says he will enter the game with an open mind considering the shorter sizes of the Adelaide Oval.
When asked about trying Yuzvendra Chahal, Dravid said, “Like I said earlier, I think we have a completely open mind about everyone in our 15-year-olds who have chosen.”

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Yuzvendra Chahal (Photo ANI)
THE BALL IS SENDING OUTSIDE
Dravid will take the call after watching the Adelaide race as Bangladesh versus Pakistan sees spinners take on a major role.
“Again, we’ll have to go there and see. I watched some games today and I know the runs are slow and they grip and they spin a little bit.
“We could be playing on a whole new strip in Adelaide, and the strip we played against Bangladesh, to be honest, doesn’t spin. It’s, again, a different kind of wicket, and it’s also played in Adelaide.”
“Of course, if it’s slow, we’ll play to those situations. If we think it can play differently, then we’ll have to come up with a squad to accommodate that,” he concluded. essay.

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