- One change has been made in Team India for the remaining two matches in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. After Ashwin’s retirement, Mumbai’s dashing all-rounder Tanush Kotian has been included in the team…
Tanush Kotian: BCCI has announced Team India for the remaining two Test matches in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2024-25. Only one change has been made in the team for the last two matches. After the Brisbane Test, Ravichandran Ashwin said goodbye to international cricket, after which he returned home the next day. Now in his place, Tanush Kotian, who plays domestic cricket from Mumbai, has been included in the team squad.
Kotian not only bowls brilliant off-spin like Ashwin, but he also scores centuries in the lower order. This is the reason why the selectors, captain Rohit Sharma and Team India’s head coach Gautam Gambhir have expressed confidence in this youngster despite having experienced spinners like Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav. At the same time, an innings of Tanush, who went on the Australia tour, is being discussed a lot on social media. He scored a century by batting explosively at number 9.
Made a century in difficult conditions
Tanush Kotian is known for his brilliant bowling as well as his long-century innings. He comes in the lower order and keeps the scoreboard ticking along with the tail-end batsmen. He once did a similar feat in a Ranji Trophy match played in February 2024. In front of Baroda’s excellent bowling, Kotian came at number 9 and played an unbeaten innings of 120 runs off 129 balls.
His innings included 10 fours and 4 sixes. The special thing is that his strike rate in this Ranji Trophy innings was above 93. Tanush came to bat in difficult conditions in this match. When he came to the crease, Mumbai had lost 8 wickets for just 313 runs. At the same time, when the last wicket of the team fell, Mumbai’s score was 569 runs.
Troubled the batsmen with off-spin
Apart from excellent batting, Tanush Kotian also bowls excellent off-spin. He bowled 19.3 overs in the first innings of this match, in which he took two wickets. He also got two wickets in the second innings. 26-year-old Kotian bowls and bats like former Indian veteran off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin. This is the reason why he has been given preference on the Australia tour ahead of Akshar Patel and Kuldeep Yadav.
Kotian’s career
Tanush Kotian, who plays domestic cricket for Mumbai, has had an amazing domestic career. Kotian made his first class debut on 22 December 2018. Since then, he has played 33 matches so far, in which he took 101 wickets while bowling off-spin. While in the same number of matches, he has scored 1525 runs with an impressive average of 41.21. During this, he has scored 2 centuries and 13 half-centuries.
