Tilak Bridge will be crossed

Updated On: 22 August, 2023 07:42 AM IST | Mumbai | Subodh Mayure

Australia great Matthew Hayden feels inexperience in one-dayers won’t be a deterrent for young batter Varma, who earned a maiden ODI call-up through Asia Cup team announcement

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Tilak Varma during his unbeaten 49 in the third T20I against WI at Guyana recently. Pic/AFP

Australia’s two-time (2003 and 2007) ODI World Cup-winning opener Matthew Hayden, 51, reckoned India have a fine mix of young talent and seasoned pros who will add great value to their World Cup campaign.

‘Good strategy to use Tilak’

The selection of 20-year-old batter Tilak Varma, picked by the national selection committee for India’s Asia Cup matches in Sri Lanka on Monday, went down well with the Queensland cricket great-turned-commentator. “Look, in the lead up to the [October-November] World Cup you’re always going to have some trial players and we’ve seen the class of Varma. I think it’s good strategy in terms of not just this World Cup, but even potentially getting into the next World Cup,” Hayden said during an interaction with select media on the sidelines of the Ceat cricket awards at a city hotel on Monday.

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