I am glad that Abhishek Sharma made use of the opportunity that was given to him. It is hard to be a player who doesn't have support from the powerful players, unlike the case with players such as Sanju Samson or Riyan Parag. The combination of Abhishek and Travis Head (for Sunrisers Hyderabad) was spellbinding in the 2024 edition of IPL. Hard work pays off, and finally he got selected to the national side. I am sure that he will find a permanent slot sometime soon.
I agree, if we have all things on merit and nepotism having no role then I have strong feeling this guy is having good future with Team India in future specially his entry is having good time for him with both openers are retired and selectors are looking for good and long run suitable replacements so this inning and tour can bring good fortune for this youngsters career which is doing all with his super technique and amazing skills his partnership with Travis Head is surely going to give him good experience and improvement in quality for leading from the front in the future.
Even mostly peoples are feeling this tours timing is not right, but I have feeling this is going to be good for these youngsters as they are now having good experience and improvement into their game which is going to help them in big events and against big countries in near future hopefully now in coming matches we will have performance like this which we have in second game.
I can see that there is a chance that those people who want to actually promote the "
nepo-players" might say that this was just against Zimbabwe and not give the players which are doing well in this tournament a good chance. That isn't entirely possible. We all know that if there is no nepotism and favoritism, and if the sports section is left with the athletes and not the politicians, every team is going to have a great squad and the performance will also increase almost 3 times. But I guess that is not possible in this day and age. so we can just hope for the best and the players who do not have that level of backing up from others will have to make good deals of the opportunities that they get. And Abhishek Sharma did just that.
One thing good for India is they have enough players to replace any player. Just look at the way India did not select
Shikhar Dhawan. He was in good form but he was very replaceable. That’s a positive.