Former Team India cricketer Aakash Chopra praised Rinku Singh for getting India out of a difficult situation in the second T20I against Bangladesh in Delhi on Wednesday, October 9. He said that the left-handed batsman should have been a part of India’s 2024 T20 World Cup squad.

Rinku scored 53 runs in 29 balls and India set a target of 222 runs for Bangladesh. After this, the Men in Blue restricted Bangla Tigers to 135 runs for nine wickets and registered an emphatic 86-run win and took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series.

Aakash Chopra gave a big statement regarding Rinku Singh

In a video shared on his YouTube channel, Aakash Chopra said that Rinku has been mistreated. He said, “Rinku Singh’s story is very interesting. No matter how much you talk about it, it is less. I feel that full justice is not being done to him. He logically should have been in the T20 World Cup squad because if you had seen his performance last year before the World Cup, he was excellent.”

Cricketer turned commentator Chopra said that this batsman from Uttar Pradesh has always taken India out of difficult situations. The former batsman said, “He has performed well wherever and whenever he has played. Whenever the Indian team is struggling, he gets a chance to bat, be it against Afghanistan, South Africa or Bangladesh. He has scored a half-century every time and if you look at his strike rate in those innings, you will say he is brilliant.”

Chopra finally said that, “That means he is scoring runs, managing the innings, not letting wickets fall, preventing collapses and then the strike rate is so good that you reach the top scores despite early losses. You have phenomenal potential.”