In domestic cricket in India, the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy ended just a few days ago with Mumbai winning and now the 50-over Vijay Hazare tournament will begin on December 21. All cricket associations have announced their respective squads in this regard. The Karnataka team management took a shocking decision as their most important player and former captain Manish Pandey was not given a place. The biggest reason behind this decision is that the Karnataka management is now working hard to provide opportunities to new players to replace the old ones so that a strong team is ready for the future.
No batting even in Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy
The biggest reason for Manish Pandey’s ouster was his continued poor form, in which he played 5 games and scored just 117 runs with the bat in the recently concluded Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy. In this competition, the Karnataka team failed to even qualify from the group and was still ranked first among the 8 teams. Now the Karnataka Cricket Association has made their intentions clear with KSCA selection committee chairman G Abhiram saying in a statement to ESPN Cricinfo that we have realized that now we need to look beyond the old players and look for new ones. Given a chance. We cannot move forward by constantly looking at past performance. Last time we lost, it was a young team from Karnataka and we wanted to give the youngsters a chance again.
Now it’s hard to get a chance in the second round of Ranji Trophy
After not being selected for the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Manish Pandey is finding it difficult to get selected in the Karnataka squad for the second round of the Ranji Trophy 2024-25 next year. Manish Pandey is the first Indian player to score a century in the history of IPL. He has also played 29 ODI matches and 39 T20 international cricket matches, in which he has scored 566 runs in ODI matches at an average of 33.29, including 2 half-centuries and a century. In T20 internationals, Manish scored 709 runs at an average of 44.31, including three half-centuries.
Karnataka in contention for Vijay Hazare Trophy
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