Indian captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Gautam-Gambhir-c58623 has said that he will give Yusuf Pathan an opportunity to bat with the batsmen to prove his form.
The one day series between India and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/New-Zealand-c754 has been an entertaining one for India, as they have easily managed to won the series with 2 matches still left. India has a wining lead of 3-0 in the series, and they are looking good to extend it to 5-0.
Their batsmen have played the kiwi bowlers with ease, and have not been troubled by their bowlers in the series.
In all the three matches, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 has managed to score a lot of runs and their batsmen have enjoyed some good batting practice against the kiwis. Gautam Gambhir realises the importance of batting in their upcoming ventures, and is certainly looking to give
all their batsmen some good practice before the important South African series.
Yusuf Pathan is one player, who enjoys a lot of respect among team members for his explosive batting. He has played some explosive knocks for his side, but his position of batting has always been one which does not give a lot of chances to play a long innings.
Gautam Gambhir, who himself has scored 2 centuries in the series so far, was of the view that Yusuf Pathan should be given a chance to play with top-order batsmen, as he is such a explosive batsman and he will have a good batting practice.
Gambhir said that Pathan played with bowlers and not with the batsmen in the first game, and he was in that situation where he has to go after each and every ball.
In the first one day, Yusuf Pathan managed 29 runs when he was batting with the lower order. The last two one days did not give him a chance to bat, as the score was managed by the top order of the Indian line-up. Yusuf did bowl well in the last one day,
as he was able to get 2 wickets and he was also economical in his spell.
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