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Parvez Rasool targets World Cup selection
New Delhi: Jammu and Kashmir cricketer Parvez Rasool is targeting a spot in the Indian team which will play in the in Australia and New Zealand.
“The target now is selection for the World Cup. There are multi-day matches coming up and the aim is to do well in those. I have to do well as a team and individually as well. The target is to get back to the Indian team,” Rasool was quoted as saying by bcci.tv.
The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) Nov 21 presented the 25-year-old with the Lala Amarnath Award for the best all-rounder in Ranji Trophy for the 2013-14 season. Rasool said the honour now increases his responsibility.
“Getting the Lala Amarnath award is a huge honour for any cricketer. Best all-rounder! My responsibility increases. This will be a morale booster for me as well as the team, that our performances are getting recognition which will lead to calls in India A, India, Indian Premier League (IPL),” said Rasool, who scored 663 runs and picked 27 wickets from nine Ranji matches last season.
“The award is very important and especially for me because for the first time in the history a player from Jammu and Kashmir has received an award and that too for being the best all-rounder in the Ranji Trophy. I feel it will be a big morale booster for our players.”
Rasool has played only one One-Day International (ODI) for India — against Bangladesh June 15 in Dhaka — where he picked up two wickets.
The left-handed batsman from Haryana is garnering praise from all quarters for the way he’s finishing games regularly in the most exciting IPL season.
Gavaskar reckons Tewatia’s whirlwind knock in Sharjah (in IPL 2020) where he smashed West Indies pacer Sheldon Cottrell for five sixes in an over, gave him the confidence that he belongs to the big stage.
Speaking on Cricket Live on Star Sports, Gavaskar said, “That assault on Sheldon Cottrell in Sharjah gave him the belief to do the impossible and the confidence that he belongs here. We saw the impossible (he did with the bat) the other day as well. There’s no twitching or touching the pads (which shows a batter’s nervousness) when he bats in the death overs. He just waits for the ball to be delivered and plays his shots. He’s got all the shots in the book, but most importantly his temperament to stay cool in a crisis is brilliant.”
Gavaskar has also nicknamed the 28-year-old cricketer the ‘ice-man’ and lauded Tewatia’s ability to remain unruffled during the tense moments.
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