Veteran Indian cricketer Dinesh Karthik on Saturday mentioned that Ravichandran Ashwin must be made captain if India sends a group to the Asian Games 2023 in China later this yr.
It’ll be the primary time that the BCCI has agreed to ship each males’s and ladies’s groups to the Asian Games, which begins September 23 until October 8. India can even start its ICC World Cup marketing campaign in opposition to Australia on October 8 in Chennai.
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“I genuinely wish, if India sends a B team to this Asian Games, because the main team will be preparing for the World Cup and if they feel Ashwin is not part of the ODI setup, I really hope and wish that they make him the captain cause I think he deserves it,” the wicketkeeper-batter mentioned throughout an interplay in Chennai.
Heaping reward on the second-highest wicket-taker for India in Tests, Karthik mentioned that Ashwin is among the best cricketers ever to play cricket and captaining Team India will likely be a feather in his hat.
“I genuinely feel that he is somebody who has earned the right to be a captain of Team India for whatever achievements he has done.”
“I really hope and wish that the selectors take the call to make him the captain in the Asian Games which I think will be a feather on his hat that is something very well deserved for him,” the 38-year-old concluded.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com