22-year-old Malik, the son of a fruit vendor in Jammu, is regularly creating terrifying speeds above 150 kmph. His hostile spells for Sunrisers Hyderabad got the batsmen jumping, fans cheering and pundits calling for him to join. team india, all time great Dale SteynMalik, who has been mentoring SRH, established him as a superstar.
Batting for J&K express fast bowler Umra MalikFormer coach of Team India Ravi Shastri Recently said that he should be given a central contract immediately and carefully nurtured by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), while former India off-spinner Harbhajan Singh believes that he should be given a central contract by the end of this year. I should be in the squad for the T20 World Cup to be held in Australia.
, He will blow the heads of people there at his own pace. (He will break the heads of batsmen there at his own pace),” Singh quipped at a recent event.
The enthusiasm is understandable. Earlier this week, Malik won his 13th consecutive award for fastest delivery in the match in IPL 2022 when he clocked 154.8 kmph. He can go fast – he hit a top speed of 157kmph against Delhi Capitals on May 5. Many believe that he can exceed the record speed of 100 mph (160 kmph), which has been the special patronage of Shoaib Akhtar and Brett till now. Took.
Malik turned heads last year with his pace for the first time, when he got to play only a few IPL matches. Impressed by what he saw, the SRH think-tank decided to retain him ahead of this year’s mega auction. It was a huge gamble on an uncapped youngster, but Malik has paid off his faith this year, taking 21 wickets in 13 matches, his best finish at 5/25 (before Sunrisers’ last league game against Punjab Kings on Sunday). ) Was. ,
The last J&K cricketer to play for India was off-spinner Parvez Rasool, who played one ODI and one T20I in 2017. No player from J&K has played a Test for India yet, but if Umran repeats his IPL valor on the international stage, it may be only a matter of time. The selection of the rest of the team was on expected lines. As predicted by TOI, Punjab and Punjab Kings left-arm seamer Arshdeep Singh also earned his maiden India call-up for the T20I against the Proteas. The 23-year-old has been outstanding at the time of this death, where his ability to remain calm under pressure and deliver the exact yorkers he wants has proved invaluable to his team.
Arshdeep earns India call-up, Rahul to captain South Africa T20 series in Rohit’s absence
Along with the rest of regular skipper Rohit Sharma, other senior all-format players Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Shami, KL Rahul will lead India in the T20I series. A day later when he refused to take a review opportunity, which may have brought his team, Delhi Capitals, some consolation to a place in the playoffs, Rishabh Pant was named as Rahul’s deputy. it was speculated that Shikhar Dhawan The Indian will lead the T20I side but he has not been picked in the squad either, which means the selectors are now clearly looking ahead to him in T20Is.
After scoring four consecutive centuries for Sussex in county cricket, Cheteshwar Pujara made a worthy return to India’s 17-man Test squad for the tour of England.
He will be joined by Rohit, Kohli, Bumrah and Shami, who will all fly to England from July 1-5 at Edgbaston against England on June 15 – the fifth match of last year’s series, which was postponed after a Covid-19 outbreak. had gone. to scare It has been reported that VVS Laxman will be Team India’s coach for the T20Is, with Rahul Dravid leading the England tour, but the BCCI’s release on Sunday was silent on the issue.
