Ravi Shastri feels that India missed this player during the T20 World Cup 2021

There is no denying the fact, T Natarajan has turned out to be a superb death bowler, since making his debut in the Indian T20 League. His skills managed to impress several experts and analysts. His performances in the Indian T20 League also helped him make his international debut in 2020.

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He was impressive while playing for India as well. He became a hero after India's historic series win during the Border-Gavaskar Trophy 2020-21. However, an injury meant that he had to be ruled out for almost an year. Thus, he missed the T20 World Cup 2021 as well.

Ravi Shastri recently spoke about how India missed his services during that tournament. It is to be noted that the T20 WC was the 59-year-old's last assignment as India's head coach. He stated that Natarajan would have been a certainty if he was fit.

“Very happy for him. We missed him in the World Cup. He would’ve been a certainty had he been fit. He got injured against England when we were playing the ODI series and we really missed him (in the World Cup). He’s that specialist death bowler, bowls those yorkers very skilfully. He’s got great control. He is skiddy. A bit quicker than you think and hits the bat,” said Ravi Shastri while speaking to ESPNcricinfo.

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India were below-par during the T20 WC 2021 as they got knocked out in the Super 12 stages of the tournament. As for Natarajan, he recently made a comeback during the Indian T20 league 2022. He was earlier purchased by Hyderabad for INR 4 crore during the mega auction.

While he had a poor outing against Rajasthan, he was superb during the game against Lucknow. He gave just 26 runs in his four overs, and picked two wickets. So far, he has picked four wickets in the 2022 edition. As for his overall numbers in the cash-rich league, the pacer has picked 24 wickets in 26 games at an average of 31.54. His economy rate is decent as well (8.27).