Devdutt Padikkal has become the fifth player to debut in the test series against England

Devdutt Padikkals name became the topic of discussion as Team India captain Rohit Sharma announced playing XI during the toss in the Dharmshala test match. Rohit Sharma gave that player a chance to make Englands Test debut, who was sitting on the bench for the last few matches waiting for his turn. India, including Devdutt Padikkal, gave the fifth new player to debut in the 5-match test series against England. Lets know who is Devdutt Padikkal and why they got the chance.
Talk about Devdutt Padikkal, he was born in Kerala in 2000. After this, Devdutt Padikkal selected cricket as career and made his way to IPL by batting tremendously. Devdatta Padikkal made name for Royal Challengers Bangalore (RCB) first in IPL and then moved to Rajasthan Royals. This season KL Rahuls Lucknow Super Giants have traded them. 23 years old Padikkal scored runs in domestic cricket, due to which he was called from Team India. Padikkal hit 556 runs from an average of 92 in this Ranji Season 6 innings. In which they scored 3 strong centuries and scored 193 runs was their best.
Not only that when Indian selector Ajit Agarkar was in the stands during the match against Ranji Trophy against Tamil Nadu, Padikkal played an innings of 151 runs in front of him and his selection was almost fixed from here. While playing for India A after this they played 65, 21 and 105 runs against England Lions in Ahmedabad field. Padikkal has scored 2227 runs in 31 first class matches from Karnataka so far. While their names recorded 38 runs in 2 T-20 international matches for India. Devdutt Padikkals strong batting, he got called from Test Team India for the first time and was included in the team instead of Chotil KL Rahul.