The KKR left-hander Nitish Rana, who has been a frequent run scorer in the last few seasons of the IPL and played some vital cameos in the last IPL as well, has said that he is determined to make a comeback to the Indian national team and for that, he will do whatever it takes.
Nitish Rana was speaking in an exclusive interview with India Today where he recalled his first gig with the Indian national side which was the Sri Lanka tour last year. Rana got the opportunity to play a couple of T20 games in Sri Lanka and the southpaw said that the position where he was asked to bat against Sri Lanka wasn’t his natural batting position.
Rana is generally a top-order batsman, both for his state side Delhi and for his IPL team KKR, but when he played for the Indian T20I team in Sri Lanka, he batted in the middle order and was given the role of a finisher rather than the role of someone who could lay a platform for the finishers.
Rana insisted that he would not use that reason as an excuse to justify his failure because he couldn’t live up to the task and he knows it, but it was not the batting position he was very comfortable with.
Rinku Singh ,Nitish Rana and Abhishek Nayar in KKR Camp, Kolkata with our Youngsters pic.twitter.com/Fd0kegLq7L
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Several young Indian batsmen have got opportunities recently, but Nitish Rana has been overlooked
There have been quite a few young Indian batsmen who have scored runs in the IPL recently and have got their opportunities in international cricket, but Nitish Rana has been overlooked. However, the 28-year-old has insisted that he will keep trying and if scoring 400 runs in the IPL doesn’t earn him an opportunity to play for India, he will try and score 600 runs.
According to Rana, who is currently training in the KKR academy, scoring runs is the only thing that an aspiring player can do and that’s what he is focusing on. Rest everything lies in the hands of the decision-makers and he is not thinking too much about that.
Met up with Rinku Singh and Nitish Rana today in Powai🤩
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