journey of Navdeep saini ‘s : biography
NAVDEEP SAINI BIOGRAPHY
navdeep saini , is a cricketer , who is a right arm medium fast bowler born on novemember 23 1992,. navdeep is a young cricketer who currently plays for india A and delhi and will play for india in test in WEST INDIES Tour.
Background
Despite from haryana he was chosen to play for delhi in Ranji Trophy over DDCA seletion committee even expressed their dissapproval.
DEBUT
naveeep made his first class debut at the age of 21 on december 14,02013 , 2013-2014 ranji season. DDAC selection committee was skeptical of his selection and even dissapproved of it . Because he was from harayan and not player from Delhi .
SAINI LAST SIX YEAR STRUGGLE
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Over the last six years, Saini has been a consistent performer in the domestic circuit; and during the 2019 IPL he impressed one and all with his ability to clock speeds upwards of 150kph. He has also excelled for India ‘A’ in the ongoing oneday series against West Indies ‘A’, picking 5/46 in the second unofficial ODI in Antigua.
On Sunday, the 26-year-old rewarded by the selectors, who picked him in India’s ODI as well as T20 teams for the tour to West Indies.
Saini’s journey to the Indian team has been a rollercoaster one. Till 2013, he didn’t play leather-ball cricket; he wasn’t part of any serious age-group cricket either. Saini used to play tennis-ball cricket in local tournaments in Karnal with his earnings being Rs 200 per match.
Former Delhi medium-pacer Sumit Narwal saw Saini bowl in the Karnal Premier League – a tournament that Narwal used to conduct – and impressed with his pace.
GAMBHIR HELPS NAVDEEP SAINI.
Saini’s next stop was the Delhi nets where he had quite an impact on gautam gambhir, who was often beaten for pace. Gambhir would arrange a pair of boots for Saini and ask him to be a regular at the Delhi nets. This was Saini’s intial intrusion into Delhi cricket. Saini had Gambhir’s backing, and the former Delhi captain fought with the state selectors to get the pacer in Delhi’s Ranji Trophy team. Ultimately, Gambhir’s efforts paid off and Saini selected in the Delhi team in the 2013-14 season.
Since then, Saini hasn’t looked back. He helped Delhi reach the final of the 2017-18 Ranji season where he finished as the team’s leading wicket-taker with 34 in eight games. It was the semifinal against Bengal that saw Saini come up with his best performance.
He took 3/55 in the first innings, and then followed with 4/35 in the second to send Bengal crashing for 86, giving Delhi an innings victory. Saini had vindicated the stand taken by Gambhir, who was Delhi’s captain during the 2017-18 campaign.
MAIDEN CALL UP IN INDIAN SENIOR TEAM
“Whenever I speak about Gambhir, I get emotional. In fact, after my first few matches with the Delhi team, he said that if I keep working hard at every practice session, I will play for India. He saw it in me before I realised myself. When I look back, I smile,” Saini said, when he had received his maiden call-up to the Indian senior team for the one-off Test match against Afghanistan in June, 2018.
