South Africa vs India, 2nd T20I: If it continues like this, Abhishek Sharma will be out of the Indian team
South Africa vs India, 2nd T20I: Abhishek Sharma's performance in IPL 2024 was stormy. Abhishek used to attack the bowlers from the first ball along with Travis Head. In 16 innings of the season, he scored 484 runs at an average of 32 and a strike rate of 204. The maximum 42 sixes also came off his bat. Due to this performance, he got a chance in Team India. Abhishek scored a century in his second match on the Zimbabwe tour.
But apart from that century, his career has remained cold. Abhishek Sharma was out for a duck in the first innings of his career. Scored 100 runs off 47 balls in the second match. Since then he has batted in 7 innings of 8 matches. During this, Abhishek could not touch the score of 20 even once.
In the series against Bangladesh, he was out after scoring 16, 15 and 4 runs. In South Africa, 7 and 4 runs have come off his bat. That is, in three consecutive innings, he has not even been able to touch the double-digit mark. Left-handed opener Abhishek Sharma has so far scored 170 runs for India in 9 innings of 10 matches. His average is 18.88. 100 runs out of 170 runs are from a single innings.
That is, Abhishek has scored only 70 runs in the other 8 innings. Talking about bowling during this time, he has 3 wickets to his name. The good thing about Abhishek is that along with batting in the top order, he is a good left-handed spinner. Abhishek Sharma will have to get rhythm in this series against South Africa.
Because there are many contenders for opening. Sanju Samson has strengthened his claim by scoring two consecutive centuries. Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill are in Australia due to playing Tests. Along with this, Ruturaj Gaikwad has also performed well for India while opening in T20.