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Team India may have won the second Test against England in Visakhapatnam, but certain problems still remain, the most alarming being their batting. While they did well to score 396 in the first innings, India’s batting in the second dig left a lot to be desired. At one point, they looked set to set England a target of at least 450, but once again a batting collapse restricted them to 399. These implosions are becoming too common and repetitive for everyone’s liking, including the team, and They were even approached by the captain. Rohit Sharma, who expects “more from his batsmen”.
To address this issue, the legendary Sunil Gavaskar has suggested a big change in the approach of Indian cricket. The former India captain wants youngsters to spend more time playing first-class cricket, be it for India A or the Ranji Trophy. Some of the players headed straight into the Test series without playing any domestic cricket and that approach is what Gavaskar wants to change.
“The fact that the batsmen did not get big runs also shows how important it is before a series of Test matches that both batsmen and bowlers play some first-class games and are in the right frame of mind for the format.” longest of the game. The Ranji Trophy had started and it would have been the perfect time for the batsmen to get into the rhythm for the Test series by playing a couple of games,” he wrote in his column for Noon.
Give more exposure to youth, says Gavaskar
However unpopular an opinion it may be, the Ranji Trophy, which for years remained the benchmark for players’ performance and their ticket to the Indian team, has been replaced by the IPL. And this has put India’s historic tournament at risk. Veterans who have worked hard for years, such as Jalaj Saxena, Paras Dogra and performed consistently, they never won their international matches for India and probably never will. To curb this, Gavaskar wants state associations to adopt some drastic changes to ensure that emerging youth get the same opportunities they deserve.
“Some of the performances in the Ranji Trophy, especially after the Lodha panel reforms made it mandatory to grant first-class status to some states that were not part of the Ranji Trophy circuit, have been mind-blowing. While the thinking behind “This may have been spreading the game to all parts of the country, what was not taken into account was that all those states were simply not ready to play at that level,” Gavaskar said.
“Yes, these states can employ three players from other states, especially some players who are good but not good enough to play on their established state teams, but most of the other players won’t even find a place on the ‘team.’ C’ de So, reading that some old batting and bowling records are being erased because some of these players who play in the plate division are scoring triple hundreds and century after century and bowlers picking more than seven wickets makes one feel sorry for those who held the records when the competition was really tough.”