Abhimanyu Easwaran’s father, Ranganathan Easwaran, has revealed that India head coach Gautam Gambhir assured his son of a fair chance in the national side. Although Abhimanyu was part of India’s squads for the 2024-25 Border-Gavaskar Trophy and the recently concluded Anderson-Tendulkar Trophy, he is yet to make his international debut.
On the England tour, Karun Nair and Sai Sudharsan were preferred ahead of Easwaran, but together they managed only a single half-century each in their combined ten innings.
“𝑮𝒂𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒎 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒃𝒉𝒊𝒓 𝒕𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒈𝒆𝒕 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏, 𝒂𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒏𝒈 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒎. 𝑯𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅𝒏’𝒕 𝒃𝒆 𝒅𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒐𝒓 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔,” 𝑹𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒏 𝑬𝒂𝒔𝒘𝒂𝒓𝒂𝒏 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅 𝒊𝒏 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒆𝒘. “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒇𝒇 𝒈𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒂𝒔𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆. 𝑴𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒃𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒂𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒑𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒏 23 𝒚𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌.”
Father Backs Abhimanyu’s Experience for Top Order Role
Ranganathan believes his son should have batted at the crucial No. 3 position. He highlighted Abhimanyu’s experience of playing on green pitches at Kolkata’s Eden Gardens, which could have been valuable in England conditions.
“𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅 𝑨𝒃𝒉𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒖 𝒂𝒕 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏. 𝑯𝒆’𝒔 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 30% 𝒐𝒇 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒕 𝑬𝒅𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒔, 𝒂 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒌, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒔 𝒌𝒏𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒏𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒔 𝒕𝒐𝒈𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓,” 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒊𝒅.
He also questioned the team’s decision-making in batting order selection.
“𝑲𝒂𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝑵𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒅𝒐𝒘𝒏; 𝒉𝒆’𝒔 𝒖𝒔𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒕 𝑵𝒐. 4 𝒐𝒓 5 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝑽𝒊𝒅𝒂𝒓𝒃𝒉𝒂. 𝑺𝒖𝒅𝒅𝒆𝒏𝒍𝒚, 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒃𝒂𝒕 𝒂𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒐𝒓 𝒇𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒆𝒓, 𝒘𝒉𝒊𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒚 𝒔𝒐𝒏, 𝒂 𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓, 𝒊𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒇𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕.”
Easwaran received his first Test call-up in December 2022 for the Bangladesh series. However, 15 players have debuted ahead of him since then. He will now be eyeing opportunities in the upcoming Test series against West Indies and South Africa.
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