Dhoni’s role massive in India’s World Cup campaign, says Ravi Shastri

Shastri said it would be the most challenging World Cup considering the quality of the opposition teams and the change in format

Mahendra Singh Dhoni will have a monstrous job in India’s offered to recapture the World Cup, mentor Ravi Shastri said Tuesday, nagging the veteran’s capacity to impact the game’s little minutes. “Monstrous as it has dependably been,” Shastri told journalists when asked what he supposes would be Dhoni’s job in the ICC’s up and coming show-stopper.

“He is directly there, his correspondence has been incredible. As a guardian, he has appeared throughout the years that nobody is superior to him in this arrangement, not simply in taking gets, perpetrating those run-outs or confusing, these are little minutes in the game which can transform it on the head and there was nobody superior to him,” he said.

M.S. Dhoni, will’s identity playing in his fourth World Cup, amassed 416 keeps running at a normal of 83.2 in the last IPL and drove Chennai Super Kings to the last, and Shastri said he was awed with his footwork amid the alliance.

“It is extraordinary to see the manner in which he was moving in the IPL particularly when he was batting, the footwork, the power with which he was hitting the shots, he will be a major player in this World Cup,” Shastri said at the group’s pre-flight question and answer session. Shastri said it would be the most testing World Cup considering the nature of the resistance groups and the adjustment in organization.

“It will be extremely testing. In the event that you take a gander at 2014 and 2019 now, the hole has turned out to be nearer between the groups. You see what Afghanistan, Bangladesh were in 2014 and what they are currently, so it is a solid challenge. West Indies, on paper, is as solid as some other group,” he said..

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Virat Kohli as batsman and captain is similar to Imran Khan: Abdul Qadir

“I wouldn’t compare the two (Kohli, Khan) but, if I look at Kohli, he also has this ability of leading from the front,” he added

Former Pakistan leg-spinner Abdul Qadir has said that he sees lot of similarities between Indian skipper Virat Kohli and former Pakistan captain and the country’s prime minister, Imran Khan. “If I look at Virat Kohli as a batsman and captain… I can say he is similar to Imran in the manner that he, like Imran, sets an example by doing something himself and then expects his team to do the same,” Qadir said on a TV show on Tuesday night.

“I wouldn’t compare the two (Kohli, Khan) but, if I look at Kohli, he also has this ability of leading from the front,” he added. “Kohli also (like Khan) takes responsibility and performs and forces the other players to perform,”|Sports News

Qadir said further.The spinner who played 67 tests and 104 One-day Internationals for Pakistan, many of them under the captaincy of Khan, was reacting to Indian head coach Ravi Shastri’s comparing Kohli to cult cricketing figures like Sir Vivian Richards and the iconic former Pakistan captain.

“If I talk about Imran, the sort of personality he had and his ability to get performance out of his players… I don’t think Virat Kohli is there as yet. But no doubt the Indian captain also leads by example,” he said. Considered by many as the best batsman of the modern era, Kohli recently led India to their first ever test series win in Australia and the Indian team under his leadership thrashed New Zealand in the recently concluded one-day series.

Rishabh Pant has technical issues in keeping wickets: Farokh Engineer

Pant had also scored a blazing hundred, the first by an Indian wicket keeper in Australia

Sports News: Rishabh Pant might have created a new record for an Indian wicket keeper by taking 11 catches in a Test in Australia, but former stumper Farokh Engineer says the Delhi youngster has a lot of technical problems in his primary job, while praising the left hander’s batting heroics.

Engineer said Pant reminds him of his young days.

“His approach is same as M S Dhoni’s. But don’t praise him sky-high at the moment. Encourage him. (But) He’s technically so incorrect,” said the one-time flamboyant wicket keeper batsman at Legends Club’s talk show at the Cricket Club of India here Wednesday evening.

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Pant had also scored a blazing hundred, the first by an Indian wicket keeper in Australia, in the drawn final Test at Sydney to top his record number of catches behind the stumps in the first match of the series at Adelaide.

Pant’s flamboyant batting exploits, however, have impressed Engineer so much that he wondered how the Indian selectors can afford to leave him out in favour of the seasoned Dhoni for this year’s World Cup in England.

“Question is, for the World Cup will you pick Dhoni? How can you drop Pant? He’s done so well. These are the questions for the selectors the three selectors who between them must have played one and a half Tests,” he said, before he was corrected that there was a five-man selection panel now with two more additions to the list.

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