Workload administration has been the thrill phrase these days in cricket. With the quantity of cricket being performed now throughout codecs, Crew India, too, has been resting and rotating gamers to keep away from burnouts.
With the ICC ODI World Cup set to start out on October 5, a number of senior Indian gamers have been rested lately. Although Asia Cup was an exception, when India fielded a full-strength squad (and went on to win the title in fashion), within the ongoing three-match ODI sequence towards Australia, skipper Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Hardik Pandya and Kuldeep Yadav have been rested for the primary two matches.
However former India legend Sunil Gavaskar disagrees with the workforce administration’s choice. “I can not fathom as to why the senior gamers have been given relaxation towards Australia within the ongoing ODI sequence. Maintaining the profitable momentum is important for one to enter a event just like the World Cup,” Gavaskar instructed former teammate and World Cupper Yajurvindra Singh in an unique interplay for THE WEEK.
“The Asia Cup in Sri Lanka gave the senior gamers sufficient relaxation,” he stated, most likely referring to the washout towards Pakistan within the opener, and the comparatively one-sided encounters towards Nepal, and Sri Lanka within the last.
The 74-year-old additionally expressed concern over the skipper’s kind. “Rohit Sharma is an important cog, each as a captain and within the Indian batting line-up. The Australian sequence would have been an ideal alternative for him.” Sharma scored three fifties, together with one towards Nepal, within the Asia Cup, however has largely been blowing cold and hot on the prime of the order.
Gavaskar, nonetheless, was upbeat about India’s bowling division, particularly the comeback star, Kuldeep Yadav and Jasprit Bumrah. “I really feel Kuldeep Yadav, who’s bowling nicely, might play an essential half on this World Cup for India,” he instructed THE WEEK.
For the total interplay with Sunil Gavaskar the place he talks concerning the 1983 win, his stint as a cricket administrator – he introduced bouncers into ODIs – about Ravichandran Ashwin, and his picks for the 2023 World Cup, seize the newest difficulty of THE WEEK (difficulty dated October 8), on stands now.
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