The ongoing T20I series against England has seen a few team India players switch their batting positions and former India batsman Aakash Chopra is not happy about a lot of the changes.
Chopra had earlier raised objections to India skipper Virat Kohli coming in to bat at No. 4 instead of his usual No. 3 position, and now he is unhappy with Shreyas Iyer coming as far down the order as No 6 in the fourth T20I on Thursday.
However, Chopra also said that the batsman does not have a choice and will have to play at “whatever position given to him”.
“He does not have any other option. As they say if you are pushed into the water, you don’t have any other option but to swim as the other option is to drown. So he has to bat at whatever position given to him.
“Whether it is ideal, definitely not because in the first match he had scored 67 when India made 124. So the player who made more than half the runs, you didn’t send him up the order but further down. He was batting at No.5 there, now he is batting at No.6.
“No.6 is not the right spot for him, he has batted well, you need to pat his back but he is not a long-term option at the position you are making him bat,” Chopra told ESPNCricinfo.
With Ishan Kishan playing a blistering innings in the 2nd T20Is, he has been slotted at No.3 after Rohit Sharma’s return to the team and therefore all other players have moved a slot down from their regular batting positions.
