Former India cricketer R Ashwin has questions Staff India’s choice of changing Harshit Rana as Shivam Dube’s concussion substitute within the Pune recreation of the continued five-match T20I collection between India and England.
In India’s final over, Dube took a success on his helmet from Overton and walked off owing to concussion. In a debatable choice, the batting allrounder was changed later by medium-pace bowler Rana when the foundations say like-for-like substitutions.
Dube, taking part in his first T20 for India since July, scored 53 off 34 balls and Pandya 53 off 30. The sport turned when Rana was introduced on as Dube’s concussion substitute. Rana didn’t waste his alternative — he had dismissed Liam Livingstone and Bethell and returned to bowl Overton to kill off England hopes.
Harshit Rana took 3 for 33 on debut and India beat England by 15 runs to win the T20 collection with a match to spare on Friday. India clinched the collection 3-1 earlier than the fifth and final match on Sunday in Mumbai.
IND vs ENG: England’s Liam Livingstone, middle, reacts after dropping his wicket to India’s Harshit Rana, proper, in the course of the fourth T20 cricket match between England and India in Pune, India, Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. (AP Picture)
“What was this recreation? It was like a duplicate of the IPL. Supersub was there, and the sport was performed with an influence participant,” Ashwin stated on his hindi YouTube channel “Ash ki baat.”
“The complete controversy about how Harshit Rana got here in as a concussion substitute for Shivam Dube. Did we overlook that it was a global match not an IPL?
“You may name poetic justice, or in actual fact poetic injustice. I don’t perceive it. At the very least earlier, Chahal changed Ravindra Jadeja. Right here, Harshit Rana changed Shivam Dube.
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Ashwin stated Ramandeep Singh ought to have been the like-for-like alternative for Dube.
“There isn’t a position of the Indian or England staff. If there isn’t a one within the squad, then you may say that Harshit Rana can bat a bit and Shivam Dube can bowl a bit, that’s why we introduced him in. Like-for-like alternative Ramandeep Singh was sitting exterior. I don’t perceive,” stated Ashwin.
“This can be a case of pure cricketing miscalculation, both on the a part of the umpires or the a part of the match referee or whoever be it. Ramandeep Singh was there, a batter who can vall a bit, like-for-like for Shivam Dube. However not him. Harshit Rana was chosen because the concussion substitute. I believe individuals in cost ought to look into this. As we speak it occurred towards England and damage, some day India is likely to be damage too.”
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