Instead of experimenting, the Indian Cricket Team could build a separate specialized team for all 3 formats
Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) announced New Captain & New Coaching Staff for Indian Cricket Team after the recent down show of the Indian team in the T20 World Cup, but it seems it will take a lot more time to see refreshing new approaches to team building and related functions.
Suryakumar Yadav is the latest in the series of debutant multi-format player experimentation underway even before the debutant can even effectively prove himself to be consistent in any one format of international cricket.
We have seen in the past how it never helps new young players from establishing themselves in any formats especially with the amount of international cricket played these days, the subtle switches needed for a player to perform optimally in all 3 formats is just too much for a debutante or fringe new players to adjust n many fail the test and often lose out on a promising career had they concentrated on just a single format.
Many promising young players and debutants are losing out in this multi-format selection process but somehow Indian cricket continues with this experimentation, wish they could build separate specialized teams for all the 3 formats and deploy players judiciously across formats after careful evaluation of players and their specializations.
Strangely enough, though the selection policy is very different when it comes to bowling options in Indian cricket.
Any young promising quickie on the radar is first tried in the T20 of all formats, a punishing format for even any seasoned bowler.
Needless to say, most of these young quicks do end up getting badly tonked in T20 and often find careers ending right there and some survive to make it to National Test Team. A few years later than they actually should have after compromising pace for swing and accuracy and then settling for a short career with the Test team with few wickets to show for their efforts but never the fast bowler they originally promised to be.
Another new experiment started in recent times with young fast bowlers sending them as net practice bowlers for the touring Indian Team batsmen to help them get a taste of pace during nets as on overseas tours they have to face faster bowlers from opposition sides howzatt.
But apparently, these young quicks are never found good enough to be carefully groomed and blooded early and help them to become ready as International Test Team regulars, then we lament why India can’t produce genuine quicks to throw back at the opposition sides.
Have great respect and admiration for Ganguly and Dravid and they represented a ‘New India’ during their playing days and one hopes they can change old and strange approaches to team building as India has the cricketing talent to be genuine world beaters in all formats.
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