Indian Cricket Team: The Indian cricket team recently performed brilliantly in the World Cup, but even then it faced defeat in the final match and also lost the World Cup trophy. Now India is preparing for the T20 World Cup, and their first stop is a 5-match home T20 series against Australia. In this series, India has won the first two matches, and the third match will be played today in Guwahati.
With this match, Team India has to play only 9 international T20 matches before the T20 World Cup, but till now the Indian cricket team has not got answers to many questions of T20 format, but they need to find answers to these 5 important questions as soon as possible. Will happen, otherwise we may have to lose another ICC tournament. Let us explain to you the importance of these 5 questions.
The Indian team management has used so many captains in the T20 format in the last one-two years that it has not yet been confirmed who will captain the T20 World Cup? For the last few T20 series, Rohit Sharma was given the captaincy by giving the excuse of rest to Hardik Pandya, and in the current series against Australia, Suryakumar Yadav is taking over the captaincy due to Hardik’s injury. However, Rohit really needed rest at this time, but if Hardik will captain in the next T20 series against South Africa, then it will be almost certain that Rohit Sharma will not captain in the T20 World Cup. In such a situation, whether this decision of Team India will prove to be correct or not, it will be known only after the end of the T20 World Cup.
2. Will Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli play or not?
For the last few T20 series, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli are not being given a chance to play on the pretext of rest. However, it is not yet known whether Rohit and Virat themselves do not want to play the T20 format, or they really need rest, or the Indian team management no longer wants to keep them in the T20 format? In the last T20 World Cup, Team India played under the captaincy of Rohit, and also reached the semi-finals. Virat Kohli also scored a lot of runs in that World Cup, and played many match-winning innings. In the recently concluded ODI World Cup, these two batsmen have scored the most runs. Therefore, certainly the presence of Rohit and Virat in the T20 World Cup will be like two strong pillars for Team India, but if they have to play, then it will be necessary for their names to be there in the next two T20 series.
3. Will only the youth team go to play the World Cup?
In the last few T20 series and the current T20 series in Australia, the Indian selectors have expressed confidence only in the youth. Be it the opening, or the middle order, or the bowling order, the responsibility of everything has been entrusted to the young players, and they have shown good performance, but did Team India have the experience in the World Cup to be held in West Indies and USA? Will it not be necessary? Will Team India go to play the World Cup relying only on such a young team? And if experience has to be mixed in this team, then when will the experienced players get a chance to play T20 matches?
4. Who will be given the responsibility of the bowling order?
In the last few T20 series, it has been seen that the bowling of the Indian cricket team is being handled by young bowlers like Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan. In such a situation, will these bowlers be sent to the T20 World Cup, or will the experienced and experienced Mohammed Shami, Jasprit Bumrah and Mohammed Siraj, who performed brilliantly in the ODI World Cup, be included in the team? Will a mix of youth and experience be brought in the bowling too, and if so, will Shami, Bumrah and Siraj also need game time, when will they get it?
5. Will the selectors wait for IPL?
IPL 2024 will end just before the start of the ICC T20 World Cup. In such a situation, it is certain that the Indian selectors will definitely have an eye on the players who perform well in the IPL from the World Cup, but after the IPL, Team India will not have a single international T20 match left, so will the IPL be important for the selectors? Would a strategy based on trust be correct? We are saying this because there is a lot of difference between the pitches of India and West Indies, hence it will not be necessary that players who perform well in IPL will also do well on Caribbean pitches. Apart from this, there is a lot of difference in the experience of IPL and international matches.
