I feel I am now keeping the wicket better than I have ever done before: Parthiv Patel

Jan 9, 2019 at 3:57 PM

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I feel I am now keeping the wicket better than I have ever done before: Parthiv Patel

Despite Parthiv Patel doing well as a wicket-keeper batsman in the Test series against England last year, the 32-year-old player was not given an extended run due to the comeback of team India’s first preference, Wriddhiman Saha. As per the selectors and few of the cricketers, Saha is presently the best wicketkeeper in Indian cricket.

Even Harbhajan Singh has rated Saha as best wicketkeeper. The Bengal man has also shown his skills behind the wickets, a glimpse of which we saw in Sri Lanka, where it was pretty tough to stand behind the wickets with R Ashwin and Ravindra Jadeja in front, but Saha made the job look easy.

Wriddhiman Saha | Indian cricket team ||
Wriddhiman Saha. Image Courtesy: Getty Images

Despite few of the wicketkeeper-batsman doing a good job at present, they do not have even an outside chance in Test format until the time Saha is there. Even Patel is not someone who would be looked at in this case.

He, though, is working hard on his wicketkeeping skills and feels that he is a better wicketkeeper now,

“I have been working hard on my keeping of late. I feel I am now keeping the wicket better than I have ever done before,” he told Sportstar.

Parthiv Patel | Indian cricket team |
Parthiv Patel playing for India.

Patel made his comeback in the India Test team in 2016, after eight years under the leadership of Virat Kohli, who was still playing junior cricket when Patel made his debut for India in 2002 as a 17-year-old kid. Patel praised skipper Kohli and said that it felt nice to be part of Kohli’s team,

“It was exciting to be part of the team led by Virat Kohli. And it felt nice to have done well on my comeback and contributed to the team. I am quite ready as a standby,” he said. These days I have two separate sessions — for batting and keeping,” he added.

Parthiv Patel would not have been in contention of a comeback had players like Ishan Kishan, and Rishab Pant had performed for team India in the practice games and ‘A’ matches in which they were given a chance in.

As a result, selectors were forced to recall him in the India A side for the second unofficial Test against New Zealand A when Rsihab Pant was down with a fever. Looking at the scenario, it was Kishan who would have been called, but his successive failures found him getting no favour.

Dinesh Karthik | Indian cricket team |
Dinesh Karthik plays a shot

With this, it is confirmed that Patel might go to South Africa as a backup for Saha but still, no one can rule out a comeback for Dinesh Karthik as well. He has done well in first-class cricket and the way he has been given favour in limited overs cricket, selectors may not deny him a comeback in the longest format of the game too.

The competition is open to Patel and others and the one who will do well in next few weeks of Ranji Trophy would go with Saha to South Africa.

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