Submit image of India’s Test cricket group.© AFP
Cheteshwar Pujara, Umesh Yadav and Mohammed Shami lost out as Team India called team for the two-match Test series versus West Indies, beginning July 12. Jaydev Unadkat kept his area while Delhi Capitals pacer Mukesh Kumar got his first India call-up. Navdeep Saini too was called into the group in the longest format. While some children have actually been employed for the 2 matches, the group is basically the very same with Rohit Sharma, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli, Ajinkya Rahane, Ravichandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Shardul Thakur, Mohammed Siraj and Axar Patel forming the core.
Previous India captain Sunil Gavaskar feels that Team India has actually missed out on a “fantastic chance” by not offering possibility to more children for the Tests versus West Indies. The cricket veteran recommended that the gamers who are specific to play ODI World Cup in October-November this year need to have focussed just on playing white-ball cricket onwards.
“The World Test Championship is gone. We lost out there. Now the next huge thing actually is the (ODI) World Cup in October and for that reason I would have desired for the huge young boys to be offered a total break from Test cricket. Now look just at the white-ball cricket, not red-ball cricket. Provide a total break who are particular to play World Cup. They have actually been playing non-stop cricket for 3-4 months. They hardly had a break,” stated Gavaskar on Sports Today.
“Had they offered break to every senior gamer and played a couple of more younger gamers, that would have done Indian cricket a world of excellent. That regretfully hasn’t occurred. I believe a fantastic chance was missed out on,” he included.
The West Indies series starts a brand-new chapter for the Indian group, as they prepare to go the range in the WTC 2023-25 cycle.
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