Time for Transition
It’s time for Transition now
The time has come now for a
complete changeover in team India. From the current set of players, there are
most of players were part of that last ICC event, which was won by
India, way back in 2013. Since that it’s been almost 10 years
now, where we are still searching for that glory. The same set up is continued
till now, but certainly failed in crunch moments. So, now with this T20 WC
campaign is over, and the next one is in 2024, team India should try a
new set of players in the combination.
With the next WC of 50
overs is very near from this time and as we are in the middle of the Test
Championship in this cycle, so we can still continue with this core of
players till next year. But post that we will also have to make that transition
there. Most of these players are now at their end of their carrier and some are
also with injury issues, so continuing with them might not be ideal.
For some players like Rohit,
DK, Shami, Ashwin, Shikhar (already out of T20), road for T20Is
might have ended with this WC. But they are expected to continue in ODIs for
at least one more year. Only exception, we can found here is Virat Kohli,
as he is super fit and in excellent form, he is the one among these who can be
given another 3 to 4 years if he wishes to play.
Apart from that it is going
to be very hard for others from this set up to continue, unless and until
someone make his case very strong with his fitness and performance. At the end
these two have to be the parameter for the selection or rejection, not the age.
One obvious decision that is going to be made is that making Hardik Pandya
the permanent T20 Captain.
What can be changed?
Adapting to Current Trend:-
Ø T20 Cricket has been
changed today. The approach and template we are playing with seems to be very
outdated. There was a mention by our Captain Rohit Sharma, last year
after the WC that we are going to change our template. But did we feel
that change in approach and mindset after one year right now?
Ø Only he was the
only one who tried to make his word count, but eventually that approach
backfired for him. Whereas other players followed their old template. The
biggest factor is that whenever we want to made this type of change in the
team, we need to change our mindset as well as choice of players.
Ø
England team is the real example of a perfect limited over
team with proper approach and template. They are having a team with all sort of
players with multiple abilities. The teams has players with almost 9 to 10
players can bat properly and 7 to 8 bowling options. They filled there
team with 4 to 5 proper all-rounders.
Ø Among batters,
they can give them proper bowling and among bowlers, they can give them proper
batting depth. That’s why they are able to play this attacking brand of cricket
without any fear. At the same time they don’t have to adjust in the team
somewhere to balancing the team.
Ø But if we can
see our team, we are changing the template just by words not by work. There was
no single instance in the WC where we showed that approach or template. We
compromised our bowling by adding batting depth to our lineup. There were no
options other than Hardik who could be used with the ball in our top 6
batting.
Ø Deepak Hooda was that option,
but hardly team management used him as an all-rounder. So our focus should be
now onwards to prepare the all-rounders, which are actually the main strength
for attacking approach. The focus should be on picking players with multiple
skill sets and getting them ready by giving regular chances.
Ø There is certain
need for our top order batters to give at least few overs just like Liam
Livingstone did against us and some of our bowlers need to contribute with
the bat just like Shadab and Nawaj doing for Pakistan. At the
same time we have to not compromise with our main batters and bowlers to strengthen
a particular aspect.
Time to Give Chances to
Domestic Talents
IPL has certainly
been a parameter for coming to International side after its arrival. But
unfortunately Domestic Cricket have been neglected in terms of player
evaluation. The time has come to change that mindset. As long as we are
considering IPL performers in limited overs format, we should now give chances
to players from Domestic at least in Test Matches.
Some special mentions like- Sarfaraz
Khan, Abhimanyu Eswaran, Priyank Panchal, Hanuma Bhihari, etc. who
have been the consistent performer in the first class cricket needs to
be added in the Test format. There are huge no of players who are currently
waiting for their chances in the regular Indian side. Here, we are focusing on
some of them, according to specific roles, who can be the next superstars and
can be next set of players.
Top Order:-
Shubhman Gill
Prithvi Shaw
Ruturaj Gaikwad
Yashaswi Jaiswal
Devdutt Paddikal
Abhimanyu Eswaran
Priyank Panchal
Mayank Agarwal
Hanuma Bhihari
All-Rounders:-
Hardik Pandya
Deepak Hooda
Abhishek Sharma
Rahul Tewatia
Washington Sundar
Axar Patel
Shahbaz Ahamed
Venktesh Iyer
Wicket Keepers:-
Bowlers:-
Jaspreet Bumrah Umran Mallik
Deepak Chahar Prasidh Krishna
Shardul Thakur Kuldeep Sen
Arshdeep Singh Yuzavendra Chahal
Harshal Patel Kuldeep Yadav
Mohammed Siraj Ravi Bishnoi
Here, we have given those
names which are already part of the team or near to the team. We have
categorized them according to their roles also. But the list is huge so anyone
who performs can be picked in the side. These are the most probable ones. There
are some senior players also who are still fit into the team but once their
time ends here are the players who are in the line.
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