Team India might have received the 2nd Test towards England at Visakhapatnam however sure points nonetheless persist, essentially the most alarming being their batting. While they did nicely to submit 396 within the first innings, India’s batting within the second dig left lots to be desired. At one stage, they appeared primed to set England a goal of a minimum of 450, however as soon as once more a batting collapse restricted it to 399. These implosions have gotten manner too widespread and repetitive for everybody’s liking – together with staff’s – and was even addressed by captain Rohit Sharma, who expects ‘extra from his batters’.
Sunil Gavaskar with a straight bat as all the time(Getty)
To sort out this downside, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar has instructed an enormous change in Indian cricket’s strategy. The former India captain desires the kids to spend extra time taking part in First-Class cricket – be it for India A or Ranji Trophy. Some of the gamers headed straight into the Test sequence with out taking part in any type of home cricket and that strategy is what Gavaskar desires tweaked.
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“What the batters’ failure to get big runs also shows how important it is before a Test match series for both batters and bowlers to play some first-class games and get themselves in the right frame of mind for the longer format of the game. The Ranji Trophy had started and it would have been perfect timing for the batters to get into the groove for the Test series by playing a couple of games,” he wrote in his column for The Mid-Day.
Give children extra publicity, says Gavaskar
As unpopular an opinion as it could be, the Ranji Trophy, which for years, remained the benchmark for participant efficiency and their ticket to the Indian staff, has been changed by the IPL. And this has put India’s historic match in danger. Veterans who’ve slogged for years similar to Jalaj Saxena, Paras Dogra and carried out constantly, by no means earned their India caps and doubtless by no means will. In order to curb this, Gavaskar desires state associations to take some drastic adjustments to make sure rising children get equal and deserving alternatives
“Some of the performances in the Ranji Trophy, especially after the Lodha panel reforms made it mandatory to give first-class status to some states who were not part of the Ranji Trophy circuit, have been mind boggling. While the thinking behind it may have been to spread the game to all parts of the country, what it did not take into consideration was that all those states were simply not ready to play at that level,” Gavaskar acknowledged.
“Yes, these states can employ three players from other states, especially some players who are good but not good enough to play for their established state teams but most of the other players won’t even find a place in the ‘C team’ of most elite teams. So to read some old batting and bowling records being obliterated because some of these players playing in the plate division are scoring triple hundreds and century after century and bowlers picking seven-plus wicket hauls makes one feel sorry for those who held the records when the competition was really stiff.”
Source: www.hindustantimes.com
