Former India captain Kapil Dev said that he doesn’t feel all-rounder Hardik Pandya will be playing too many Tests in the future for India as well. Kapil also agreed that Pandya should play Test cricket if fit, but doesn’t see that taking place soon as well. He made his red-ball debut for India in Sri Lanka in 2017 but he hasn’t played a Test match since the tour of England in 2018.
“Doesn’t look like he will.” The Indian legend added, “I saw his photograph on the billboard today. I don’t know whether they did any touch-up or not, but in that, he looked like having one of the finest bodies we have in the country. Yes, he should play more cricket because he has so much ability. If he is fit, he should play Test cricket also.”
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Earlier, in an interview with The Week magazine, Kapil Dev had disagreed with former India head coach Ravi Shastri’s thoughts that Hardik Pandya’s body cannot cope with the physical demands of the longer format.
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“I don’t think it is right to compare players. Last 20-30 years, we have produced enough fast bowlers whom we can depend on. And that is more important. And it is not just fast-bowling all-rounders you require, you need spin-bowling all-rounders’ as well. And you have some decent ones in the Indian team. Jadeja is fantastic, Ashwin is doing a great job. So it isn’t that we don’t have any all-rounders at all,” Kapil Dev concluded.
