NEW DELHI: IPL team Delhi Capitals director
Sourav Ganguly
believes that young Australian batsman
Jake Fraser-McGurk
, who missed out on a
T20 World Cup
spot, has a long career ahead of him.
This season in the 20-over Indian Premier League, Fraser-McGurk, 22, has made an impression for Delhi Capitals with 330 runs in nine matches at a punishing strike rate of over 234 runs per game.
Although Ganguly, Delhi coach
Ricky Ponting
, and Australian Capitals teammate
David Warner
have praised him for his brave hitting, he was left out of Australia's World Cup squad in June.
"With Ricky around he guided Jake very well. What I like about him is he's hungry, he wants to play well,"
Ganguly
said on Tuesday during Delhi's win over Lucknow Super Giants.
"I know he missed out on the World Cup, Australia should have probably picked him," said former India captain Ganguly.
"But that's the way it goes when you have so many good players in Warner, Travis Head and Mitch Marsh at three, you will obviously miss out.
"But he's just 22 and he has got a long career.
"For us, he is a game changer and that's what you need in this format."
Despite not being sold at the IPL auction, Fraser-McGurk joined Delhi as a replacement for South African pacer Lungi Ngidi due to injury.
He stated that the T20 World Cup in the United States and the West Indies was "not on the forefront" of his mind in an interview with AFP last month.
Fraser-McGurk has been called "a serious talent" by Ponting, and his attacking approach and effortless sixes have been compared to Warner's early career flair.
(With AFP inputs)
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