India vs Windies | Prithvi Shaw likely to make ODI debut in Windies series
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Selectors might call Prithvi Shaw to open with Rohit Sharma in the ODI series against West Indies so as to keep the senior players fresh and give juniors more chances. However, that will not be possible for the first two matches as the selectors have already announced the team sans Shaw.
Selectors and the team management got together last week for the review meeting where the selectors seemed keen to rotate senior players with the likes of Prithvi Shaw and Khaleel Ahmed so as to make a pool of players for the next year’s World Cup. One of the major debuts might be handed to Prithvi Shaw, who made the world sit up and take notice of him with his fluid batting display in the Test series against the Windies.Â
The senior selection committee has already declared the team for the first two ODIs and it’s expected that they will try out Shaw in the remaining games as decided in the review meeting. The review meeting was attended by the selectors, captain Virat Kohli, coach Ravi Shastri, Rohit Sharma, and Ajinkya Rahane.Â
“With an eye to the World Cup, the main focus was how to rotate players. In fact, more than rotation, it would be more about how to save our key players. That’s why you would see the likes of Jasprit Bumrah, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Hardik Pandya, Mohammad Shami in and out of the squad, not playing regularly. The players who are important for all formats will be adequately taken care of. Going ahead also, these things will keep happening,” a BCCI source told Indian Express.
Shaw has proved his mettle as an able limited-over batsman as he has scored 938 runs at an average of 42.33 and at a strike rate of 115.37 from 22 List A games. He has already hit five fifties and three
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