South African cricket star AB de Villiers has reacted to Mohammed Shami being left out of the Indian team. He feels the selectors might be moving on from the senior pacer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shami, who last played for India in the Champions Trophy in March, had ankle and knee injuries which required surgery after the 2023 World Cup. Despite a strong performance in the Champions Trophy, he was not picked for India\u2019s white-ball tour to Australia starting October 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Speaking on his YouTube channel, De Villierssaid, \u201cIt is a big call from Team India. It feels like, in a certain way, they\u2019ve moved on from him. I don\u2019t know the behind\u2013the\u2013scenes story, if there maybe a couple of niggles he\u2019s still carrying. Maybe he lost a yard of pace and he doesn\u2019t quite have that zip that he used to. Those could all play a part. It doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s the end of the road for him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The former South Africa captain also shared his admiration for Shami\u2019s bowling skills. \u201cHe\u2019s a wonderful bowler. Always asks questions of the batters. He\u2019s a wicket-to-wicket bowler and a great asset to have in the team if he\u2019s in form, fit and raring to go. Obviously, it is very disappointing not to see him there as he\u2019s a very entertaining performer for Team India,\u201d De Villiers added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The retired star also noted that Shami still has a chance to regain his spot if he recovers pace.\u201cIf he can still find that extra yard of pace, as that is one thing I picked up \u2014 he lost a little bit of pace recently and maybe that is the reason he is not in the national team anymore,\u201d De Villiers explained.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
South African cricket star AB de Villiers has reacted to Mohammed Shami being left out of the Indian team. He feels the selectors might be moving on from the senior pacer. Shami, who last played for India in the Champions Trophy in March, had ankle and knee injuries which required surgery after the 2023 World Cup. Despite a strong performance in the Champions Trophy, he was not picked for India\u2019s white-ball tour to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3792,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3790\/revisions\/3792"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurubhainews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}