To become a champion, some changes are necessary in Indian cricket.Image Credit source: AFP
New Delhi: 10 consecutive years and 9 tournaments. So much time and so many opportunities came in hand but world’s richest cricket board and full of most famous cricketers Indian Cricket Team K’s hands have just remained empty. The series that started with the T20 World Cup final in 2014 continued with the defeat of the World Test Championship final last week. There are talks of change, suggestions are being given to change the players, but the truth is that the entire system, methods and thinking need to be changed.
India has made it to the semi-finals or finals of every ICC tournament in the last 10 years except for one tournament. Team India has lost the final four times. In such a situation, the question is justified that will this team ever be able to become the champion? What to do to make it a champion? Bringing youth in place of senior players is an option. The rest of the options tell you further.
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Decide the priority of the team and the board
This is such an issue, which is the reason for the most controversy. Priority – International Cricket or IPL? Certainly both can go hand in hand, but which one gets priority when the need arises? For example the Test Championship final. Just 10 days before this title match, many players were busy in IPL, that too for two months.
Knowing that there is a big title clash ahead, couldn’t the players have been prepared by resting them from the IPL and sending them to England well in advance! Such a situation will come in the future as well and it is necessary that the board and the players leave greed and learn a lesson from it.
end star culture
This is the biggest problem of Indian cricket. Especially in the last two decades, its effect has increased a lot. In today’s era, players become stars from IPL even before coming to international cricket. There are already big stars like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma in the team. No accountability of these star players was seen being fixed.
Surely he has won many matches for India, but why can’t he be dropped like other players in bad times? The current situation demands it. Seeing his past performance and contribution, it is natural to be given a little longer chance than the rest, but there should be a limit to that too.
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team selection based on performance
This is the most important and it has to do with the selection of squad for a series and the wise selection of playing eleven. How Ambati Rayudu was overlooked in World Cup 2019. Or successful leg-spinners like Yuzvendra Chahal did not get chances in two consecutive T20 World Cups. Similarly, not selecting Ravichandran Ashwin in the playing XI in the WTC final is one of the many examples. Along with this, it is necessary to select the players who are performing consistently well in domestic cricket and give them a chance.
different formats team
Perhaps now the time is coming when India will also have to step in this direction. Till now the Indian team has been fielding with all-format players but it could not bring success. Now maybe it is necessary to think in this direction. This is also visible in T20. Of course, some players can be in two or all three formats, but the time is coming to choose teams according to different formats. Now the need has come to select not only the teams, but also the coaching staff on this basis.
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