Dubai, Mar 1 (PTI) Veteran India wicketkeeper batter Dinesh Karthik on Tuesday stated he may perceive it will have been a “exhausting one to swallow” for Wriddhiman Saha when the team management decided to move on from him but said the call was pretty understandable as Rishabh Pant had “pretty much nailed his place in the side.”
Lauding the wicket-keeping abilities of Saha, who was excluded from the Indian Test squad for the upcoming sequence towards Sri Lanka, Karthik stated, “But you may see Rishabh Pant has just about nailed his place within the group. So then, you may perceive which route the Indian group goes in the place they really feel that if it’s going to be a second keeper function, then they’ll have a look at anyone youthful.”
Karthik was sympathetic towards Saha, saying it was not easy for a cricketer to accept rejection.
“I’m pretty sure from wherever I’ve seen with Wriddhiman’s interviews, he understands where this decision is coming from,” the Tamil Nadu cricketer stated within the ICC Review.
“I do know no cricketer goes to simply accept that if you’re being informed to maneuver on. It is a really exhausting one as a result of that is what they’ve been doing day in and time out.
“All of us need to symbolize the nation and that’s the burning want for everyone. So when anyone is available in says, ‘I think your time is done,’ it may be a tough one to swallow. But it’s comprehensible and you need to perceive the place the selectors, the coach and the captain are coming from,” Karthik said.
He was all praise for Saha’s contributions to Indian cricket.
“Kudos to Wriddhiman Saha. I think he has been one of those brilliant, quiet servants of Indian cricket who has done so well over a period of years.”
“He continues to be the most effective wicketkeepers on this planet, by a distance I charge him as one of the best wicketkeeper on this planet. He has acquired nice palms, he strikes very well… he’s a terrific wicketkeeper. And add to the actual fact, he has just a few centuries in worldwide cricket and performed some actually essential, essential knocks when Team India wanted it,” Karthik added.
But following the emergence of Pant, Karthik said it was understandable why the team management took the decision to move on from Saha.
“Just like MS Dhoni came in all those years ago, we’ve had a Rishabh Pant who’s come in over the last couple of years and has done really well,” he stated.
“When that occurs, Saha has clearly grow to be the second wicketkeeper and he has been travelling with the group and taking part in the odd match right here and there.”
The 37-year old Saha was left out from India’s Test squad for the upcoming two-match series against Sri Lanka, with Pant and KS Bharat being chosen for the contests.
Saha later revealed he was told by India head coach Rahul Dravid that the team would look to move on from the veteran.
Saha has represented India in 40 Tests, scoring 1,353 runs with three centuries and six fifties and effected 104 dismissals.
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