India, Sept. 25 -- India's T20I batting sensation Abhishek Sharma, who has set the Asia Cup on fire with his dazzling display of strokeplay, is in line to earn his maiden ODI call-up for the Australia tour next month. The left-handed opening batter, who is the current leading run-scorer of the ongoing Asia Cup and has a career T20I strike rate nudging 200, was named in the India A squad for the home one-dayers against Australia, largley seen as a shadow series for the ODIs Down Under.

Abhishek has scored 248 runs at an unbelievable strike rate of 206 in the Asia Cup in five matches. He won back-to-back Player of the Match awards for his twin half-centuries against Pakistan and Bangladesh in the Super Four stage and has by far looked the ...