New Delhi: Former West Indies batter Ramnaresh Sarwan has said that he admires different aspects of Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.
Sarwan was asked to name his favourite players from the current team and he didn’t go beyond the skipper and the batting ace.
“I like Rohit because of his confidence and he does everything with elegance. With Virat, apart from his batting ability, I admire his work ethics, determination, passion and the face that he is never shy to take on the opposition verbally,” he told PTI on Tuesday.
The former right hander also said he likes former South Africa opener Hashim Amla’s style of batting and expressed concern over the state of Test cricket in the West Indies.
Most young cricketers who are growing up in the West Indies are drawn towards the glitz, glamour and good money offered y the T20 leagues.
“Yeah well Test cricket is at a very low point to be honest. Among the games that we are playing again in the Caribbean, I don’t think it’s sufficient to develop our players but I also think there is this major threat of T20 cricket where a lot of people are showing interest in the shortest format,” Sarwan, who scored over 10,000 run across formats in 87 Tests and 181 ODIs for West Indies, said.
“I think one of the biggest challenges we’ve had is facilities in the region. I think the cricket board has been working on it. So we’ll see what happens.”
Migration
He also expects many players born and raised in the West Indies to move to USA after it co-hosted the ongoing T20 World Cup and T20 cirkcet being included in the the 2028 LA Olympics programme.
“I think having T20 format in the US which is so close to the Caribbean with so many players of course they would have the opportunity now to participate in the short format of the game in the US,” the 44-year-old said.
“So you might find a lot of people jumping ship in terms of coming to the US and start participating in T20 and of course try and see if they could find a way in terms of becoming legal in the US and then start hopefully pushing the play in the US.”
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