Strange ways of Indian cricket

Tendulkar and Raina interact during a practice session at the Sardar Patel Stadium. 

 

 

 

 

 

The Indian team's think-tank has taken a leaf out of the book in the course of Australia Commonwealth Bank tri-series, when deciding to adopt a rotation policy for their three senior batsmen - Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar and Gautam Gambhir.

Sehwag and Gambhir were not part of India's matches against Australia in Melbourne and against Sri Lanka in Perth, respectively, and Tendulkar was the time to sit third game of the tournament team at the Adelaide Oval today. As expected, the news of the failure Tendulkar was not taken too kindly by former India captain Ravi Shastri, who was visibly upset with the decision of the management team to rest the scout master and told him he should play every game for CB Series trying to score his 100th century in international cricket elusive. But why Tendulkar given special treatment and be kept away from the rotation policy? Tendulkar is undoubtedly the greatest batsman of India, but even he can not be greater than the team.

I thought cricket was a team game where personal milestones take a back seat and the decisions must be made in the best interests of the team! This is something that I had mentioned this story last month saying Tendulkar Selection Series for the CB and indeed the team one day is a step backwards for Indian cricket.

Returning to the rotation policy used to be Down Under, Sehwag justified last week, he said the management team or youth team to play in all matches in the tournament and get used to the conditions as the World Cup 2015 is being organized by Australia and New Zealand. . "We have good young people (it is) is important, they have to play more one-dayers so they have experience when the World Cup comes That's our aim When the World Cup is there, they must have played at least 75 .. - 100 ODIs, so they are ready for the World Cup, "he said.

India captain MS Dhoni said the policy was put in place to ensure Rohit Sharma gets enough games to become a permanent member of the team one day. There is something fundamentally wrong with this logic, because Rohit would have thought he had established himself in Team thanks for your man back-to-back series of awards in the last two India one-day series against West Indies, home and away . Furthermore, by highlighting Rohit, the message is that he has not done enough to be part of the playing XI and he is now being given enough chances to make a case for himself. This certainly is unfair to Rohit when there are other players who need this "security" more than he does at the moment.

Australia first used the rotation policy in early 2000, when they were a force conquers all, and was more of a need to infuse a sense of competition for places on the team to ensure that players are not satisfied and stop challenging to improve. And players who were rotated were and still are being shaped, an example that was resting Michael Hussey for the game today and Peter Forrest delivering his maiden international cap.

The heart of the Indian team management seems to be in the right place, but they are going wrong in implementing the policy by turning only the top three batters and did not adopt the same attitude toward someone like Suresh Raina, who continues to be discovered and again in Inflatable fields away from the sub-continent. Raina had sufficient opportunity and time to work on his technique against short deliveries, but despite its flaws in the middle-order continuous, it is being given a long rope.

And that is when someone like Manoj Tiwary is part of the Indian squad for the CB Series. Tiwary not only score his maiden international century in his last ODI appearance for India, it is also useful with the ball and is brilliant in the field, and can easily insert a point of Raina. Raina needs to be sent a message that he can not take your place in the team for granted, especially when there is a worthy competitor around.

India should ideally have first used the policy of rotation in the test series against West Indies at home, the former opening batsman Aakash Chopra writes this column. Chopra adds that it makes little sense to rotate players, after only one or two walks and there should be a method to the madness.

It is time also that Dhoni and team management to think seriously about including Irfan Pathan India XI to play sooner or later in the tournament, to the detriment of any Ravindra Jadeja and Vinay Kumar.