The young Indian pacer, Arshdeep Singh witnessed a brilliant international debut when he became the 99th man to represent India in T20 cricket in the first T20I against England. In 4 overs, he scalped 2 wickets and also bowled a maiden over. Unfortunately for him, he could not play the next couple of games as he wasn’t part of the squad Jasprit Bumrah was back for the 2nd matches, and for the third game, Umran Malik was preferred over him.
Arshdeep Singh is part of India’s ODI squad and he was expected to make his debut in the opening ODI, but an injury prior to the game ruled him out of contention for a potential debut. After the toss, the BCCI through Twitter informed that both Virat Kohli and Arshdeep Singh were not considered for selection owing to injuries.
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Tweeting about the same, BCCI wrote: “🚨 UPDATE: Virat Kohli and Arshdeep Singh were not considered for selection for the first ODI against England. Virat has a mild groin strain while Arshdeep has a right abdominal strain. The BCCI Medical Team is monitoring them. #TeamIndia | #ENGvIND”.
🚨 UPDATE: Virat Kohli and Arshdeep Singh were not considered for selection for the first ODI against England.
Virat has a mild groin strain while Arshdeep has right abdominal strain. The BCCI Medical Team is monitoring them.#TeamIndia | #ENGvIND
— BCCI (@BCCI) July 12, 2022
Arshdeep Singh in his first international match managed to display all the skills that he possesses. He swung the ball early in the innings and in the end overs he bowled Yorkers at will and also displayed the variety of slower balls at his disposal. There were calls for him to play in the remainder of the T20 matches but he wasn’t considered. Arshdeep broke his way through into the Indian team after performing well for Punjab Kings in back-to-back IPLs.
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England Playing XI: Jason Roy, Jonny Bairstow, Joe Root, Ben Stokes, Jos Buttler (c & wk), Liam Livingstone, Moeen Ali, Craig Overton, David Willey, Brydon Carse, Reece Topley
India Playing XI: Rohit Sharma (c), Shikhar Dhawan, Shreyas Iyer, Suryakumar Yadav, Rishabh Pant (wk), Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja, Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah, Yuzvendra Chahal, Prasidh Krishna
