Taller ambitions: Abhimanyu, who’s enjoying his a hundredth First Class match, says his final dream is to play for India.
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On the verge of achieving a private milestone of enjoying 100 First Class matches, Bengal opener Abhimanyu Easwaran seemed again with delight at his 11-year-old journey and remained hopeful of donning India colors.
At the same time as play couldn’t be doable on the opening day of Bengal’s Ranji Trophy Group-C match towards Bihar on the Cricket Affiliation of Bengal (CAB) Academy Floor right here resulting from moist patches on the outfield owing to in a single day rain, Abhimanyu expressed his gratitude to the state affiliation for giving him a platform.
Abhimanyu, who was felicitated by the CAB for his milestone, mentioned: “It’s a protracted journey. I thanked the affiliation (in my acceptance speech). The CAB gave me an opportunity to play First Class cricket. It feels good that I’m enjoying my a hundredth match.
“It makes me really feel particular. It was not my dream (to play 100 matches). My goal was to play for India. It’s nonetheless the identical dream. It was good to benefit from the journey. I’ve learnt rather a lot. I’ve made quite a lot of buddies. I’ve quite a lot of reminiscences.”
The 29-year-old, who has come near incomes the India cap on a number of events and has scored 4 centuries in 2024-25, mentioned he continued to deal with his job of piling on the runs with out occupied with the India name.
Focus
“It’s going to occur when it has to occur. You retain on doing all of your job. I’m solely occupied with the Bihar match. We bought a great begin to the season. My focus is just on the Ranji Trophy,” mentioned Abhimanyu, who amassed 7638 runs in 99 matches at a mean of 49.92 earlier than the match towards Bihar.
The toss didn’t happen within the match on Friday as match officers made a number of rounds of inspection earlier than deciding to name off the day’s motion.
Revealed – October 18, 2024 07:29 pm IST
