Like every other cricketer from Delhi, Harshit Rana has a witty, instant humor. It showed up recently in an extremely awkward fan interaction.
At an airport, with paparazzi capturing his every move anyway,
a young fan came up to Rana and squeezed his hand in towards his body to pose for a photo. Rana asked him without wasting a second, ‘Aray, aray, mai girlfriend hu kya aapki?’ (Oh, am I your girlfriend or what?).
Hilariously, the fan pulled his hand back immediately, but still wanted to pose for a photo, and Harshit, perhaps too habituated to such fanfare already, was ready with a smile even before that.
Watch the now-viral clip here:
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As Rana said in the video, his next destination is Australia, where he’s one of the few players to be part of both ODI and T20I squads.
Questions galore on Harshit Rana’s selection
Rana is one of the few players whose careers have bloomed under the coaching of Gautam Gambhir. Although the pacer has shown himself worthy of that trust — his performances on the tour of Australia were promising and his T20 skills are among the best in the country already — questions are being raised about the fairness of it, with some believing Gambhir favors Rana because of their similar Delhi backgrounds.
For example, former selector and international Kris Srikkanth has been heavily critical of Rana.
“By making such selections constantly, they are confusing the players themselves. Even we aren’t sure everyday what the selection will be. Suddenly Yashasvi Jaiswal is there and then next minute he won’t be there. There is only one permanent member – Harshit Rana. Nobody knows why he is there in the team. By chopping and changing all the time, they’ll dent the confidence of the players,” he said in a recent YouTube video.
“You don’t pick some players even if they do well and take others even if they don’t. Best is to be like Harshit Rana and be a constant yes-man to Gambhir to be selected. You should start building towards the 2027 World Cup. But I feel they’ve not. If you pick Harshit Rana and Nitish Kumar Reddy among the probabilities, then you can wave goodbye to the trophy,” Srikkanth added.
