Now even in the Test match, the challenging issue of batting at number 4 has emerged

Delhi: Due to Virat Kohli retiring from Test cricket, there was a lack of his 123 Test experience in the team, the biggest question came that now who will bat at number 4? The coincidence is where the question of batting at number 4 in ODIs also troubled India, while in recent years, there was no such problem. Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli, while batting at number 4, scored 21056 Test runs with 70 centuries in 435 innings in the Test. If Virat Kohli was there, then the question of number 4 batting in the Test was not noticed. Now who is such a batsman to handle this special number of the team’s batting order for many years like these two?

Many contender’s names are coming out, but the truth is that it is such a difficult puzzle that the selectors were shy away from answering it. Talking on the team, Ajit Agarkar put the responsibility on the team management about the batting order. At this time there is talk of playing in the top 3 of Yashswi, B Sai Sudarshan and/or Abhimanyu Ishwar.

Shubman Gill will bat at number 4?

According to the signs that are coming out, captain Shubman Gill himself bat at number 4. This means that given the position of the team, you have to decide your batting style and be ready for both defense and stroke play. The interesting thing is that out of 59 innings of his last 32 Tests, Shubman has not batting at number 4 even once. Shubman batting at opener in 29 innings and number 3 in 30 innings. He was an opener but came to number 3 to make a place for Yashasvi. So are they now the correct contenders for number 4? Some knowledgeable is advocating the responsibility of number 4 to Karun Nair. Cheteshwar Pujara is also among those who think so. If this experiment is successful, it will be good for the team, but if they fail, then their Test can ‘spoil’.

Actually, the discussion of long term plow should be discussed later, now find a solution to the challenge in the England tour. Who will bat at number 4, this is a question that is in her legacy in Indian cricket. In 1992, Sachin Tendulkar played at number 4 in his first tour of Australia and then he and then Virat Kohli took over this responsibility, so forgot this question in recent years. Now it is bothering.

Shubman did not bat below number 3

Although Shubman had not been the captain, if the responsibility of fixing the number 4, then the coach Gautam Gambhir would have been the captain, so now the number 4 will be decided, by deciding that he will see himself in the structure of the team, where do you see themselves in the structure of the team? Shubman has been in the top 3 in his career and has not batting below number 3 in any format in international cricket. So now giving them batting at number 4, will it not be like putting a big batsman’s wicket at stake? Therefore, the support of batting at Shubman’s number 3 and Karun Nair number 4 is increasing. Karun Nair has played in the 7 Test innings so far, then played at number 5/6/7.

Whoever plays at number 4 will be inherited by Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli as a challenge, but it will also be recorded that the success story on this number is not much:

Batting record at number 4

• For India, only 7 batsmen have scored 1000+ runs at number 4: Sachin Tendulkar 13492, Virat Kohli 7564, Gundappa Vishwanath 5081, Dilip Vengsarkar 2605, Vijay Manjrekar 1669, Vijay Hazare 1623 and Sourav Ganguly 1188 runs.
• In addition to all these, 20+ innings on the number number only Chandu Borde and Rahul Dravid played.
• Sachin Tendulkar is the only batsman to score 10000+ runs at number 4.
• Of the available players at this time (among those who scored at least 40 runs) only Ajinkya Rahane 533 in 15 innings, 150 in Sarfaraz Khan 2 innings, Cheteshwar Pujara 7 in innings, 136 in 7 innings, KL Rahul 2 innings, 108 in 2 innings, 65 in Devdutt Parkal 1 innings, 65 in Shreyas Aiyar 2 innings, 56 in 2 innings, 56 in Ishan Kishan 1 innings and 52 in 1 innings are the names of 40 and Ravindra Jade 1 innings. Are in the current team, there is no discussion about their names.

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