Batsmen: 3 Indian Players Could Have More Successful as an Opener: Openers play a very important role in any format of cricket. If the openers give a good start to the team, then a momentum is set for the entire team and then the chances of winning also increase significantly. Therefore, there is a lot of responsibility on the openers.
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There have been many legendary openers in cricket history so far. Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Saeed Anwar, Matthew Hayden, Graeme Smith, all of them have been great openers of their time. Opening batting means a lot to any player. Due to opening, the batsmen have a lot of time to score runs. That is why the batsmen who have been openers have scored more runs.
Rohit Sharma and Virender Sehwag would not have been such big batsmen today if they were not made openers at the right time. That is why today we will tell you about 3 such players of the Indian team who could have scored a lot of runs if they opened.
These batsmen could have made big records if they got a chance to open
3. Batsmen: Suresh Raina
Suresh Raina is a great middle order batsman. He has played many great innings for India by coming in the middle order. Raina has won many matches for the Indian team on the basis of his explosive batting. Suresh Raina has played 226 ODIs in his career, in which he has scored 5615 runs. During this time Raina has scored 5 centuries and 36 half-centuries.
Looking at the kind of batsman Suresh Raina is, it can be said that if he had opened, he could have scored a lot of runs. He could have given a fast start to the team and today he would have scored a lot of runs in ODIs and he could have made many records to his name.
2. Ambati Rayudu
Ambati Rayudu has no lack of talent but he could not perform accordingly. Ambati Rayudu is a great cricketer and if he had got a chance to open, he too could have scored a lot of runs. We got to see the biggest example of this in the IPL, when in the 2018 season, he played many tremendous innings as an opening batsman. Apart from this, he also opened once for the Indian team, in which he played an innings of 57 runs.
Rayudu played 55 ODIs, in which he scored 1694 runs at an average of 47. He has always been in and out of the team. It can be said that if he had got a chance to open continuously, he would have been far ahead in terms of runs today and perhaps many records would also have been in his name.
1. Yuvraj Singh
Yuvraj Singh has won many matches for the Indian team while batting in the middle order in his career. When there is talk of middle order batting, Yuvraj Singh’s name will definitely be taken. Yuvraj scored a total of 8701 runs in his ODI career, that too while batting in the middle order. This shows how great a batsman he was.
However, if Yuvraj had got a chance to open, then perhaps many big records of the world would have been in his name today. There is no guarantee that a middle order batsman can be successful as an opener, but we have examples of players like Rohit Sharma and Sehwag.
Not only this, in 2004, Mohinder Amarnath, a member of the 1983 World Cup winning team, also advocated for Yuvraj Singh to open in a Test match against Pakistan. He had then given a statement that Yuvraj and Sehwag should open in the Rawalpindi Test match against Pakistan.
