Abhimanyu Easwaran, Border-Gavaskar Trophy: The Indian team for the upcoming season of Border-Gavaskar Trophy has been announced. There are many strong players in the team. Not only this, captain Rohit Sharma will not participate in the first test match due to some personal reasons. In such a situation, information has also been received about who will do the opening in his absence.
People were surprised by the team's announcement
In the absence of Rohit Sharma, people felt that the opening batsmen of the Indian team would be Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill. Apart from this, people were thinking of KL Rahul as the third opening batsman. But when the team was announced, people were surprised.
Easwaran got a chance
Like Rohit Sharma, the professional opening batsman who has been included in the team is domestic star Abhimanyu Easwaran. Easwaran also played very well in the recently concluded Duleep Trophy. Apart from this, his record in domestic cricket is also excellent. For all these reasons, he has got a place in the Blue Team for the Border-Gavaskar Trophy.
Abhimanyu Easwaran's domestic cricket career
Ishwar has played a total of 99 first class, 88 List A and 34 T20 matches in domestic cricket so far. Meanwhile, he has scored 7638 runs in 169 first-class cricket at an average of 49.92, 3847 runs in 86 List A innings at an average of 47.49 and 976 runs in 33 T20 innings at an average of 37.53.
God has scored such a century
Easwaran has 27 centuries and 29 half-centuries to his name in first-class cricket. So far he has scored 9 centuries and 23 half-centuries in List A and 1 century and 5 half-centuries in T20.