Nidahas Trophy 2018: Five takeaways for India

#4 Vijay Shankar and Washington Sundar

Washington Sundar has been quite impressive with his skills.

Vijay Shankar, picked as the replacement to Hardik Pandya for the medium pacer all-rounder slot in the side has had a decent time in the series, even winning a Man of the Match award in one of the matches. Although his batting wasn't tested too much, his skills definitely looks to be quite a notch below Hardik Pandya. But the one who has stolen the limelight in this series has been Washington Sundar, the other all-rounder in the side.

With impressive figures of 2-28, 0-23, 2-21, 3-22 and 1-20 off his 4 overs each, the spinner has been economical and skillful to such an extent that he has even overshadowed Chahal on a few occasions, also winning the Player of the Series for his consistent performances.

With his ability to bowl economically during the powerplay overs and being able to exert pressure on the batsman to pick up wickets, we might very well see him picked up as a first choice spinner in the T20s and maybe even a backup choice in the ODIs, having seen how expensive someone like Chahal can be some times.