Rahul Dravid openly spoke about Dinesh Karthik role in T20 World Cup 2022

Cricket | efore the Indian Premier League 2022, who would have thought that Dinesh Karthik would return to the Indian cricket team. The 37-year-old played the role of a finisher for the Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) in a powerful manner and made a comeback in the Indian T20 team. Dinesh Karthik showed his skills when he got a chance in the five-match series against South Africa and pulled the team out of a difficult situation. Team India's head coach Rahul Dravid said after the end of this series that the kind of performance by Dinesh Karthik has opened many options for Team India before the T20 World Cup 2022.

Dravid also wants to determine the main team for the World Cup by the end of the series against England and made it clear that one has to perform very well to make it to the last 15 players. After the five-match series against South Africa ended 2-2, Dravid said, "It was really good to see that Karthik played the role he was picked for. This gives us a lot of options.

The last match of the series got washed out in rain. Regarding Karthik's innings of 55 off 27 balls in the fourth T20 match, Dravid said, "He was selected for his exceptional performance in the last two or three years (in the IPL) and in the series, especially in Rajkot, he played such an innings." .' According to Dravid, Karthik and Hardik Pandya are the two batsmen who can change the equation of the match in the death overs.

“We needed this kind of big performance in the last five overs to get a good score and he and Hardik batted very well. Both are our key strengths in the last over. Dravid does not want to set any time limit, but by the end of the T20 series against England, he wants to prepare an unbiased opinion on 18-20 players before the World Cup in Australia.

India and England will play six limited overs matches from 7 to 17 July after the one-off Test. Dravid said, 'As you get closer to the tournament, you want to be sure about your final team. There are possibilities of sudden changes in the kind of world you live in today. You will go to the World Cup with 15 players but it is important to identify the top 18 to 20 players. Dravid said, “There can be changes due to injury and other reasons which are beyond your control but we want to ensure that team as soon as possible. Whether it will be in the next series (Ireland) or the series after that (England) is difficult to say, but we definitely want to do that as soon as possible.