Ryan Ten Doeschate names the ideal successor for Hardik Pandya

Beyond Reddy, India have tried to look at someone like Harshit Rana as well as a batting option down the order. In the last couple of ODI series against South Africa and New Zealand, India tried Rana at No 8 as an option, but he remains a work in progress with his fifty showing encouraging signs. For the series against Afghanistan India brought in Gurnoor Brar, another seamer who can be handy with the bat. But Ten Doeschate said they need to be looked more as a bowling all-rounders.

“I would still say the majority of those guys are bowling allrounders. But certainly to see these other guys chipping in and working on their games, even someone like Gurnoor and Harshit again, they’re bowling all-rounders. But the fact that we feel we’ve got guys who can hold the bat at No.9 and obviously looking forward for the next 14-15 months, that is going to be very important, especially in South Africa when you want to play three proper out-and-out seamers. Those guys are going to need to bat. So yeah, a lot of good signs on the allrounder front and also on the fast bowler front. I think it’s been refreshing this week to see Prince, Gurnoor and Nabi,” the former Dutch captains said.