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Indian players need to play more First Class games!


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Chatterbox Bhogle recently suggested to cutback domestic teams to streamline quality of players for them to play each other more, hence emulating the South African and Australian model. Again, imo this Bhogle talking out of his backside rather than look at the overall picture. SA and Aus have to because their talent pool is less, but on paper their First Class (FC) players play more matches compared their Indian counterparts even though India has over 20 teams. Infact amongst the Test nations, domestic Indian players play least amount of First Class games per season. A minimum matches a Ranji trophy player will play is 6 (Plate) or 7 (Super). I believe this is detrimental to sustaining a world leading Test team, as the benefits of playing more 4 four day cricket outweigh the benefits of any other method to improve Test cricket. For example many young (approx. U23) Aus and SA bowlers have notched up 20-30 FC games, even more for Pak and Eng bowlers!, whilst similar age Indian bowlers have hardly got to 15!, Umesh Yadav who has been bowling for 3 seasons now has only played 19 FC games, and vice versa for Batsman. Min FC games per season: Eng: 16 SA: 10 Aus: 10 Pak: 11 SL: 10 Ind: 6 or 7 they nearly only half the games as other nations. The more FC games players the more they understand their (and other's) games, get physical conditioning, and can make improvements during the season. Hence contrary to what Bhogle's saying (basing his theory on Ian Chappel's theory for Australia), the more teams the better and especially playing more games, at least 15 to 20 FC games per season. Any thoughts?, are number of FC games played by our domestic players today too many, enough, or too little to sustain a no.1 Test team.
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