‘Super Sub’ KS Bharat is surprised that Saha is competing for the position of goalkeeper

Wriddhiman Saha’s biggest capital in his 11-year international career has been his clean glove work, which is still rigorous, but Srikar Bharat’s tidy job as a substitute goalkeeper seems enough to give the 37-year-old Bengali stumper a sleepless night.

Worse, Saha’s tremendous ability to pick up the wrong problems and injuries isn’t helping his cause with his batting skills, which has significantly worsened since Rishabh Pant was created on the Indian Test horizon.

On Saturday, Saha complained of a stiff neck, minutes before the start of the third day’s match and Bharat, the second goalkeeper who was doing his routine, was told to do the work in the middle.

The pitch, which had a variable rebound, kept the odd ball very low and climbed above one or two points, Bharat advanced his best foot in the 85.3 overs that was behind the rounds, making two very different catches and a clever reflex. which could have gone wrong due to an irregular bounce.

It was a baptism of fire for the 28-year-old first-rate cricketer, who has been a regular in India A for the past three years.

“It’s not easy if you’re not 11 years old and you have to suddenly get into it,” Axar Patel, the hero of the day, said about the performance in Bharat.

“Wriddhi bhai had a stiff neck and (Bharat) was doing his warm-up and practicing when he was suddenly told 10 minutes before the procedure started. It’s not very easy to suddenly focus your thoughts.

“But as you can see, how he collected the balls and how he took the catches and how he did the stumping. He’s going to get better in the coming days,” Patel praised Andhra for the stump.

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Former Indian player and well-known commentator Deep Dasgupta, who is in Kanpur, covering the host broadcast match, believes that what stood out for Bharat was that the three were different catches.

“It was low to dismiss Will Young’s bowling that took away from Ashwin. What Axar got to Ross Taylor jumped the ball but he was in a good position to take it,” Dasgupta said.

“Stumping showed his quick reflexes when he bounced the ball before collecting and releasing the guarantees. So he generally has an intensive technique and if he is seen as a second goalkeeper for the future, it won’t be a bad idea.” he said.

The fact that Bharat has played 78 first division matches and scored 4000 more points is also valid.

To top it all off, his first-ever high score is 308 against Goa, who opened one in the match, stayed there for eight-and-a-half hours and then helped in eight layoffs by keeping more than 130 overs in two innings.

“Since opening the baptism, it also offers opportunities for the team, but I doubt you want to look at short-term solutions,” Dasgupta said.

However he agreed that at the age of 37 Saha is not rejuvenating.

“Wriddhi is still a great goalkeeper, but it should be noted that recovering from injuries at the age of 22 is easier than what happens at 37. As a batsman, he has always been a little unusual and has been an initial shake-up,” the former Test said. said the player.

In Bengali cricket circles, those who have seen Wriddhiman since he played for the 19 and 22 U-19 and U-22 state teams believe that one of the big problems has been a closed mindset when it comes to taking overall improvement and taking responsibility.

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As he plays only one format, there have been eleven times when he has been proposed to direct Bengal but he has always refused to say that he wants to concentrate only on his game.

As for his batting, the way he batted when he played against Ranji Trophy Hyderabad in 2007, has not been the slightest improvement and the technical gaps outside the hole still exist.

For the Sahara, he is still the goalkeeper of the old school, for him to keep the first and the one the second.

Until sometime, Ravindra went before Jadeja and now the order has come down.

Although the team knows he is a world-class goalkeeper, they are not sure he can win a game with one as he did with an excellent double ton, in the rest of India’s Iran Trophy, a few years ago.

He never had the improvisational skills of the great Mahendra Singh Dhoni, and he cannot remove a match in a session like the Risverh Pant maverick.

Saha is stuck somewhere and even if he gets fit and plays in the Mumbai test, it would be difficult for the team to lead him if he doesn’t improve on his bat.

Bharat, meanwhile, has shown that the team may not lose Saha in the long run.