'Donon hi ghatiya options' - Fans react as Ricky Ponting backs KL Rahul and Ishan Kishan to be India's wicketkeeping options for World Cup 2023

KL Rahul has backed the senior wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul and young lad Ishan Kishan to be the wicketkeeping options for India for the...

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Former Australian skipper Ricky Ponting has come up with a recent statement on India’s probable squad for the ODI World Cup 2023. He has backed the senior wicketkeeper-batter KL Rahul and young lad Ishan Kishan to be the wicketkeeping options for India for the marquee tournament later in the month of October and November in their own backyard.

“I think Ishan Kishan should definitely be there as well to give another left-handed batting option because if you look back to game three, they promoted Axar and Jadeja ahead of Surya because of Ashton Agar and the balls spinning away from the right-handers,” said Ricky Ponting to ICC’s Sanjana Ganesan.

"With Rishabh not being there now, they might think of maybe wanting to play a specialist left-handed batter in the middle order which I think would have to be Ishan Kishan in some role, whether that's at No.4 or No.5,” he added later.

Although a section of Indian cricket fans took it as an opportunity to troll KL Rahul; they took to Twitter to come up with some interesting reactions and responses following Ricky Ponting’s statement on India’s squad for the 13th edition of the ODI World Cup.

Here’s how fans reacted:

Apart from this, Ponting also talked about the batting lineup of Team India and the use of batters in the middle order.

“I think Ishan Kishan should definitely be there as well to give another left-handed batting option because if you look back to game three, they promoted Axar and Jadeja ahead of Surya because of Ashton Agar and the balls spinning away from the right-handers,” said Ponting.

“So I think they'll go into that World Cup with the two keepers in their squad and they'll make the decision on what they need as far as their batting is concerned,” he concluded.

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