Kris Srikkanth says Sai Sudharsan is yet to cement his place in Test team

Former Indian opener Kris Srikkanth reckons India’s number three batter Sai Sudharsan is yet to cement his place in the Test team. Srikkanth said the left-hander had a golden opportunity to score a century in the Delhi Test match, but he could not grab his chance with both hands.

The southpaw was dismissed after scoring 87 runs in the first innings at the Arun Jaitley Stadium. Sudharsan scored 39 runs in the second essay of the second Test. 

The left-hander was under the pump after he scored only seven runs in Ahmedabad and had aggregated only 127 runs in four Test matches.

Kris Srikkanth said on his YouTube Channel, “I still feel we should wait for sometime. He played well, especially off the backfoot, but I wouldn’t say he should be a certainty over the next two to three series so easily. But he should not have let go of such an easy century. There is a big difference between 87, why even 99, to a 100.”

“Once you score that 100, it’s a different level. 90s, 50s and 70s are of no use compared to a 100. Irrespective of how much you fail, everyone will only ask for the number of hundreds. That’s where Sai Sudharsan missed out.”

On the other hand, Indian opener Yashasvi Jaiswal scored an impressive knock of 175 runs in the first innings at Delhi. Srikkanth said the southpaw is 100% a three-format player.

“100% he (Jaiswal) is an all-three-format player, no two ways about it. T20 his record is brilliant, in ODIs he will do very well but he has not been given ample chances. His game is natural and he plays his natural game without modifying. He is even charging medium pacers and smashing them at times,” said Srikkanth (via the aforementioned source).

Jaiswal is part of the upcoming ODI series against Australia.