Deepak Chahar on T20: “I can’t say if I will be selected or not.”
Deepak Chahar on T20: Deepak Chahar got 3/27 against Zimbabwe in the first ODI in Harare on Thursday. This was his first international game in six months because of an injury. Chahar was rightly named “Player of the Match,” but the 30-year-old said he had put in a lot of skill-building work before his injury to reach that level of play.
Here’s what Deepak things
When asked if his performance could help him get picked for the T20 World Cup team, the right-arm pacer said, “I can’t say if I will be selected or not as that’s not in my hands but skill wise I have worked very hard.”
“I think I have picked up from where I had left and today also barring first two overs, I bowled well. I bowled seven overs at one go, which indicates that my fitness levels are okay,” Chahar said at a press conference after the game.
“My plan remains simple, when the ball is swinging try to bowl fuller length and take wickets. If the ball isn’t swinging, then there is a plan ‘B’ or ‘C’. Today, it was swinging till the seventh over that I was bowling. So it was simple — bowl a fuller length and mix the swing and confuse the batter,” he said.
“I knew I will make my comeback in this series, which is an ODI series, so I started loading my body accordingly. The day I started bowling, I bowled six overs and then when I played 2-3 practice games, I bowled full quota of 10 overs,” Chahar said.
Chahar about difficulties
Chahar admitted that it had been hard to get back to the team after a long break. He said, “Difficulty was there. Because you are trying to regain your place in the side and in the interim, people who played have also performed and consolidated their places.”“So in order to regain your spot, you have to put up a good performance, Obviously pressure was there and I wanted to perform at the first opportunity because that’s all what a player can control,” he said.