India to play shorter formats first before Test series in overseas tours

[tweaker]

BCCI CEO Rahul Johri said that the team when  travels to England and Australia later this year,  would get used to the conditions by playing the shorter formats first.

[tweaker]

BCCI CEO Rahul Johri said that the team when  travels to England and Australia later this year,  would get used to the conditions by playing the shorter formats first.

[King Tendulkar]

Great decision 

[express bowling]

[Jimmy Cliff]

About time.

[Trichromatic]

Downside of this would be players doing well in ODIs will get more chances.

 

Rohit in first 3 tests and Rahane in remaining tests may become regular feature.

[tweaker]

Why it took board such a huge time to rectify this problem. 

The board should also ensure that the team at least plays 2 practice games before the tests 

[Sgattick10]

Why does bbci have aversion to pratice matches? 

[tweaker]

1 minute ago, Sgattick10 said:

Why does bbci have aversion to pratice matches? 

They want to squeeze some odi /T20 instead of practice games 

[Vilander]

12 minutes ago, Sgattick10 said:

Why does bbci have aversion to pratice matches? 

not just BCCI but all the board want it.

 

$$

[nevada]

Yes! Finally a sensible idea from BCCI.

[PBN]

So instead of getting proper FC matches as practice matches, we are going to get 50 and T20 as warmup matches for the Test series.

 

Also, for the English tour there are just 3 ODIs  and with the next WC in England, India should've played atleast 5 ODIs

[NameGoesHere]

Good step.  It won't solve all our problems but is better than doing nothing.

 

However,  what do guys who don't get a game in the shorter formats - Cheteshwar and maybe KL Rahul - do?  Can they find locals / FC games to play?

 

[King Tendulkar]

Good 

 

as long as we don’t confuse formats and pick test team based on white ball stuff

[saik]

Does this mean there wont be any practice matches? What will the test specialists do?

Edited March 12, 2018 by saik

[WC2011INDIA]

Ya so that those who can't bat at all in Test will get selected for the first couple of tests because of how well they did in ODIs/T20s. Another way for Rohit and Dhawan to prolong their test career. 

[Rightarmfast]

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[express bowling]

On 3/11/2018 at 1:58 PM, Trichromatic said:

Downside of this would be players doing well in ODIs will get more chances.

 

Rohit in first 3 tests and Rahane in remaining tests may become regular feature.

 

If we play tests first, we have 6  " Rohit Sharmas "   batting  in the first 2 tests.

 

[coffee_rules]

Bad move, imo. This will give a reason to select hacks like Rohit and Dhawan ahead of Pujara/Rahane and KLRhaul into the test team. OTOH, it is overseas, so Rohit might be a Rohit and will not be considered at all for tests  

 

I think BCCI should arm-wrestle to schedule LOIs and Tests in 2 different tours like what SA/Aus do. This will  not make it a long tour for some who play all formats.

[coffee_rules]

Just now, coffee_rules said:

Bad move, imo. This will give a reason to select hacks like Rohit and Dhawan ahead of Pujara/Rahane and KLRhaul into the test team. OTOH, it is overseas, so Rohit might be a N0hit (can't believe you guys have banned N O H I T ) and will not be considered at all for tests  

 

I think BCCI should arm-wrestle to schedule LOIs and Tests in 2 different tours like what SA/Aus do. This will  not make it a long tour for some who play all formats.

 

Edited March 12, 2018 by coffee_rules