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Unlike different cricketers, 41-year-old Paras Dogra has switched from reddish shot to achromatic shot cricket otherwise this season.
While his Jammu & Kashmir teammates person tweaked their on-field skills for the Syed Mushtaq Ali Trophy (SMAT), Dogra has worked beyond the tract of play during the Ranji Trophy interval.
Sitting wrong a structure astatine the Jadavpur University crushed during the SMAT matches here, Dogra, who captained Jammu and Kashmir successful the archetypal fractional of the Ranji Trophy past month, has been a talent-spotting scout for IPL broadside Punjab Kings (PBKS).
“If I consciousness idiosyncratic is good, past I pass the team. Then, it’s the management’s decision. I’ve been scouting endowment for the past 4 years.
“I did it adjacent erstwhile I played successful the SMAT,” Dogra, who past played successful the SMAT successful 2024, told the The Hindu. “For the matches successful which I played, it was easy. For different engagements, I utilized to either enactment backmost aft our lucifer oregon travel to the crushed earlier than our team.” Someone who has been playing First Class cricket for 2 decades and has sported colours of PBKS, Kolkata Knight Riders and Rajasthan Royals successful the IPL, Dogra feels T20 has enriched the game.
“The accomplishment level has improved. The crippled has go faster and much exciting. You tin spot its interaction successful reddish shot cricket. Rishabh Pant and Travis Head are the premier examples of this. There is much amusement and money,” said Dogra, who has scored 10,345 runs, including 34 centuries, astatine an mean of 48.56 successful First Class cricket.
Even though helium is not definite whether helium volition get a accidental to play successful the Vijay Hazare Trophy, Dogra enjoys his existent T20 role.
“I’m conscionable contributing to the game. Maybe God has immoderate plans for maine successful the future,” helium said.
