TIL Desk Sports/ Former India spinner Harbhajan Singh believes young batting stars Yashasvi Jaiswal and Shubman Gill should open the batting for India in T20 cricket, while Ruturaj Gaikwad, Rinku Singh and Tilak Varma also deserve the national call-up in the shortest format.
Rajasthan Royals Opener Jaiswal smashed his way to 625 runs in 14 games at a strike rate of 163 — the most runs by an uncapped player in a single season of the IPL, while Gill looks set to finish as the highest run-getter in IPL 2023, having scored 722 runs in 15 matches, including two centuries in a row.
Emphasising the importance of nurturing youth and building a dynamic team under the leadership of Hardik Pandya, Harbhajan, who was part of India’s T20 World Cup winning team in 2007, told: ‘If we are talking about batsmen, then I can say that Shubhman Gill has the potential. Along with him, I think Yashasvi too has the potential to be the future of India.’