Meanwhile, Jammu and Kashmir pacer Auqib Nabi impressed in the first unofficial red-ball game between India A and New Zealand A in Lincoln. India speedster Prasidh Krishna will not be part of the upcoming five-match ODI series against New Zealand, starting on November 4, as he is yet to fully recover from his hamstring injury, a BCCI source told PTI on Wednesday. “Prasidh is recovering well, and he has his match simulation and fitness tests lined up at the Centre of Excellence in Bengaluru on November 1 and 2.
In any case, the team management as well as the national selection committee believes that Prasidh should be fully ready for Tests, where he is required more than in ODIs,” said a BCCI source.
Auqib Nabi was named in the squad for the fourth and fifth ODIs. Now it seems, he will get a longer run. Prasidh pulled his hamstring during the home ODI series against the West Indies. Meanwhile, New Zealand batter Finn Allen believes the batting blitz led by Abhishek Sharma and teenage sensation Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in the third T20 International offers them valuable lessons for a potential meeting with India in the format’s World Cup in a couple of years’ time. “I think the amount of learning we can take from it, and the plans we can put in place for when we come up against them here, potentially in a couple of years, is really good for us. And you have to enjoy it. You know, cricket’s always full of ups and downs, so you have to find enjoyment in whatever you do. “When someone like Abhishek gets going like that, it’s pretty hard to stop him. When someone like Abhishek gets going, and Vaibhav as well, they’re pretty hard to stop for anybody.”
India chased down a daunting 199-run target in just 13.2 overs in Wellington, with Abhishek smashing a 38-ball 113 and sharing a 133-run opening stand with Sooryavanshi to hand the visitors a crushing six-wicket win and an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series.
Allen said it was difficult to stop the Indian duo once they got going, adding that New Zealand would review the defeat and devise fresh plans for the next match. So it’s just one of those things, and you just move on to the next one,” Allen said. “I think it’s just one of those things, as I said.
