After India’s four-wicket victory within the opening ODI towards New Zealand, quick bowler Harshit Rana revealed that the staff administration desires to “groom him” as an all-rounder and requested him to work on bettering his abilities as a batter to bat on the No. 8 positions.
Chasing 301, India misplaced opener Rohit Sharma early. Skipper Shubman Gill (56) and Virat Kohli (93) then cast a chic match-winning stand of 118 runs for the second wicket. Shreyas Iyer (49), Harshit Rana (29) and KL Rahul (29 not out) helped India over the road.
Notably, Rana got here forward of all-rounder Washington Sunder to bat at No. 7 and contributed a significant 29 off 23 within the chase.
“The staff administration desires to groom me as an all-rounder and it’s my process to maintain engaged on it. I’m engaged on it within the nets as effectively, and it was a matter of confidence, which KL (Rahul) Bhai helped me with after I went in (to bat). I stored my concentrate on it and made the runs,” Rana mentioned in a post-match presser.
My staff desires me to bat at No. 8 as an all-rounder, and no matter time I can provide to it within the nets, I concentrate on that. I consider I can rating 30-40 runs for the staff decrease down the order each time wanted and that is what the staff administration believes that I can do as effectively,” he added.
After being requested to bat, New Zealand received off to a powerful begin as openers Devon Conway (56) and Henry Nicholls (62) cast a superb stand of 117 runs. Daryl Mitchell anchored the innings, shifting between warning and aggression as he smashed an aggressive 84. Mohammed Siraj led the Indian assault, ending with figures of 8-0-40-2, whereas Prasidh Krishna and Rana additionally chipped in with two wickets every.
When requested concerning the Indian bowlers’ struggles to take wickets early on with the brand new ball, notably within the absence of tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah, Rana responded, “I do not know what cricket you’re watching. Even right now, though we didn’t safe the early wickets, Siraj bhai bowled exceptionally effectively. We didn’t give away quite a lot of runs both with the brand new ball.”
“However this stuff occur; if you don’t get wickets early on, then you’re going to get them later, which is what we did. There are completely different phases in ODI cricket. I felt that the pitch was gradual; there wasn’t a lot bounce both,” he added.