Team India middle-order batsman Ambati Rayudu stirred a giant controversy when he took sudden retirement from the sport after being omitted for the World Cup squad in 2019.
Despite being named within the reserves, Rayudu was not even referred to as up within the squad after Shikhar Dhawan and Vijay Shankar suffered accidents and Rishabh Pant and Mayank Agarwal have been, as an alternative, named as their replacements.
Interestingly, in October 2018, Rayudu was backed by Kohli to be group India’s quantity 4 for World Cup 2019 however the group administration and selectors overlook him and so they selected to select all-rounder Vijay Shankar as an alternative.
Rayudu even took a dig at then head selector MSK Prasad who had stated that “Vijay Shankar gives three dimensions” to the group.
“Just ordered a new set of 3-D glasses to watch the World Cup,” Rayudu had tweeted in response.
To add insult to harm, Rayudu was not referred to as up even after Shankar was injured and India wanted to bolster their batting. Rayudu introduced retirement from all types of cricket the day Agarwal joined up with the group in England in July 2019.
However, Rayudu did make a U-turn and got here out of retirement in August 2019. He confessed that the retirement determination was made in haste.
“I declined lucrative offers to play in T10 and T20 leagues in Canada and other countries. I have come out of retirement for well-wishers. It is not a U-turn as for good reasons I believe I have a good amount of cricket left in me. My top priority is now to get runs for Hyderabad,” the batsman had stated.
Rayudu was final seen in motion in IPL 2021 wherein he performed for MS Dhoni-led Chennai Super Kings (CSK) and scored 136 runs in seven matches at a whopping strike charge of 200 earlier than the T20 league bought suspended as a result of quite a few instances of COVID-19 in varied groups.
