Ajit Agarkar, former Indian pacer has picked youngster Kartik Tyagi as one of the emerging pacers to watch out for in the future, considering the skills he displayed for the Rajasthan Royals in IPL 2020.
In the recent edition of the Star Sports show Cricket Connected, Ajit Agarkar was asked to name an emerging pacer who he felt could cut the Indian side soon.
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The commentator and former pacer responded that the selection to the Indian team would depend not only on the player’s performances in the IPL but in the future in domestic tournaments like Ranji Trophy and Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy as well.
He added that T Natarajan was certainly one of the bowlers who had caught everyone’s eyes with his pinpoint yorkers and for leading the SunRisers Hyderabad bowling attack in the absence of Bhuvneshwar Kumar.
“The cut will depend on how well they go after this and not just in the IPL. But from what I saw, we keep talking about Natarajan’s yorkers. I think for a team that lost its spearhead in Bhuvneshwar Kumar, he sort of stood up really well,” Agarkar said.
T Natarajan picked 16 wickets in as many matches averaging 31.5 and was added to T20I squad for Australia in place of another uncapped spinner Varun Chakravarthy of Kolkata Knight Riders who was injured.
Ajit Agarkar Loved Watching Kartik Tyagi Whose Attitude Was Great
Ajit Agarkar also picked Kartik Tyagi as the young pacer he liked to watch in IPL 2020.
“But I think the one guy I quite loved watching in this IPL was Kartik Tyagi for Rajasthan Royals. I think there is something about him for someone who is so young and inexperienced,” he said.
The Mumbai pacer lauded the attitude shown by the Rajasthan Royals pacer and hoped that he had learnt a lot from his experience of playing in the prestigious league with pacers like Jofra Archer, Jaydev Unadkat, Ankit Rajpoot and Varun Aaron in the same team.
“His attitude was great and it is never easy for a young raw Indian fast bowler to come and have a big IPL but you learn from these experiences,” the 42-year-old said.
The former KKR pacer added that Kartik Tyagi had shown that he had the ability to bowl at all stages of the T20 game in death as well as with the new ball, which is not easy for a youngster.
“The hope is that you get better as you go forward because he seems to have the goods, he seems to have the skillsets to bowl at various stages of a T20 game, which is probably the hardest thing to do,” Agarkar continued.
Ajit Agarkar signed off by hoping that Kartik Tyagi would bowl even better in forthcoming matches and continue his form from here on and that he would be keeping a close eye on the RR fast bowler in future.
“Hopefully he keeps getting better. He is someone I will certainly watch out for,” he concluded.
Kartik Tyagi had caught the attention of all cricket fanatics with his outstanding performances for the U-19 Indian team at the Under-19 World Cup earlier in 2020. He picked up 11 wickets from 6 matches averaging 13.91.
He carried on with the same momentum in the recently concluded IPL 2020, finishing as the highest wicket-taker among Indian pacers for the Rajasthan Royals, scalping nine wickets in 10 games.