Ishan Kishan, a wicketkeeper-batter, has not managed to return to the Indian team in all formats after quitting halfway during the South Africa tour last year.
The 26-year-old was unavailable for selection early this year when the BCCI central contract list was released and with Rishabh Pant and Sanju Samson among others knocking at the doors of national selection as keepers, Ishan’s chances of representing India again are growing slimmer with every successive tour.
According to Basit Ali, a former Pakistani cricketer, Ishan is responsible for his own demise because he lost concentration.
Basit recently answered a fan’s question on his YouTube channel that there were minimal possibilities of Ishan coming back.
“Boht piche chala gaya Ishaan kishen” (Ishan has fallen way down the pecking order). “Wo thoda fashion me lag gaya tha” (He got into fashion a bit). “Gautam is seeing Pant in T20Is”. “We will have to see in ODIs when Rohit comes”, Basit said.
In fact, he was included in India’s ODI World Cup squad which took place inside India. But he did not feature in any game.
Afterwards, he left India’s test team abruptly in South Africa citing tiredness. And then sitting out domestic cricket against Indian cricket board ruling.
Also had a poor IPL 2024 where only mustered 324 runs from 14 innings. And thereafter overlooked for T20 World Cup Americas that India won.
Ishan explained why he left the middle of South Africa series in July.
“I was scoring runs and then I found myself on the bench; these things happen in a team sport. But I experienced travel fatigue. It meant there was something wrong, I was not feeling well or right so I decided to take break.” However sadly barring my family few close people no one understood that,” Ishan told.
