Rajat Patidar: Indian cricket team's newly appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir can take over the responsibility of Team India's head coach from the Sri Lanka tour. Team India has to play a three-match T20I series and a three-match ODI series on the Sri Lanka tour. In this series, Gautam Gambhir can give a chance to Rajat Patidar in Team India's T20 squad.
Gautam Gambhir can give Rajat Patidar a chance to debut
Rajat Patidar plays for Virat Kohli's team Royal Challengers Bangalore in the Indian Premier League. This season, Rajat Patidar has batted explosively and this season Patidar has scored 395 runs in 15 matches at an average of over 30 and a strike rate of over 177. Rajat Patidar has scored a century and five fifties this season and along with this he has hit 57 sixes and 51 fours. In such a situation, Team India's head coach Gautam Gambhir can give Rajat Patidar a chance in the T20I series against Sri Lanka.
Rajat Patidar plays spinners brilliantly
Rajat Patidar plays spinners brilliantly. Against leg spinners, Rajat Patidar has batted at a strike rate of 277 in the 17th season of the Indian Premier League. What is more special is that Rajat Patidar has been performing brilliantly in the IPL for the last several seasons. In IPL 2022, Rajat Patidar has batted at a strike rate of 152 at a batting average of over 55 in 8 matches and scored 303 runs. In IPL 2022, he played an unbeaten century of 112 runs.
The series will start on 27 July
The Indian cricket team will play the first match of the T20I series on the Sri Lanka tour from July 27. At the same time, the second match will be played on July 28 and the third match will be played on July 30. After this, Team India will play a three-match ODI series. The first match of the ODI series will be played on August 2 and the second match on July 4 and the third and last match on July 7. Captain Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, who have been on vacation since the T20 World Cup, can return to Team India from the ODI series. Also, Mohammed Shami, who has been out of the team due to a heel injury since the ODI World Cup, can also return.
