Selectors Will Be Keeping An Eye On Shami And Sundar Ahead Of Champions Trophy, Opines Suresh Raina

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Suresh Raina has stated the Indian selectors will be monitoring Mohammed Shami And Washington Sundar’s Performance In England Series reports ETV Bharat's Nikhil Bapat.

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00:00Nikhil, what have you got for us?

00:03I'm sure you're looking forward to the white ball assignments against England.

00:07Yes. Hi, Suresh. My question is,

00:09this white ball three against England, especially the one-days,

00:13how crucial are they because they are just before the Champions Trophy

00:16in terms of practice for the team?

00:19And second question, if you want to put your prediction hat,

00:22who will be your fourth semi-finalist for the Champions Trophy?

00:27It will be important. First of all, I think 2020 will be very important

00:31because as you can see, the north side, the east side will be a bit cold.

00:36The wicket will be very, very different. The toss will be vital.

00:39But as you rightly said, when it's a 50-over tournament,

00:42when it's one-days, 3, 6, 9, 12,

00:44it will be very important to know how the team will perform.

00:49And this practice is very important for Mohammed Shami,

00:53for Washington Sundar.

00:55You can see that they haven't played for a long time.

00:57So, the selector will be in the spotlight and so will Rohit Sharma.

01:01And as you said, semi-finalists,

01:05I think India, New Zealand,

01:08Afghanistan play a lot of matches. They have a lot of mystery spinners.

01:13So, I won't write off Afghanistan because

01:16Afghan Jalebi will come back to Dubai

01:18because they have a different idea of playing in a shorter format

01:20and the team plays differently.

01:23And I think South Africa had that belief.

01:25I think they have done really, really well as a team.

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