Are inexperienced youngsters in Team India being made to " improve " too quickly and losing their natural game and confidence as a result ?

[sandeep]

4 hours ago, Sooda said:

Totally agree with your overall point, not nearly enough opportunities given to younger players when their can and should be... but not sure about this, in the end it was our ordinary middle and lower order that cost us it as we always knew it would....it was there that more opportunities should have been given to other contenders

 

Well, our problems with the middle and lower order were well known for years - Hardik Pandya's emergence mitigated the lower order issue to an extent.  But the team should have done a much more effective job at addressing the hole in the middle order.  Guys like KL Rahul, Karthik, Rayudu, Shankar, Iyer, Rishabh, whoever - should have gotten a dozen games each starting in 2017 - not just in the middle order, but at #3 and #4.  So that they would have had opportunities to build long innings and personal confidence.  Come the WC semi-final, we ask guys like Rishabh, Rahul, Karthik etc to win us the game, but they had not gotten the experience they needed.  They were not put in positions that gave them best chance to succeed.  They were treated as 2nd class accessories, to be used and thrown around the line-up as and when required.  

[The Dark Horse]

Now that's something a good captain would say!

[Ankit_sharma03]

1 minute ago, The Dark Horse said:

Now that's something a good captain would say!

Rohit has always shown right attitude towards youngsters .....he said in Asia cup to he will make everyone feel secure 

[The Dark Horse]

4 minutes ago, Ankit_sharma03 said:

Rohit has always shown right attitude towards youngsters .....he said in Asia cup to he will make everyone feel secure 

Rohit could actually be the real captain cool..of course only IN LOIs.

[vvvslaxman]

22 minutes ago, The Dark Horse said:

Rohit could actually be the real captain cool..of course only IN LOIs.

He should be the captain. Kohli can be for Tests.

[vvvslaxman]

 Among the young guys Gill looks like more of a complete batsman than most of the other guys. I think he deserves the longest rope among youngsters. 

[vvvslaxman]

If i may say so Pant's unnatural game (which he played in Tests) will make him a permanent fixture than his natural game. Even in Tests in Australia every time he brought up his "natural game" he got out to Lyon or someone else. Dhoni when he started out hitting sixes for fun and always showed intent. Moment he became the captain he started playing percentage cricket.  Always hard to dismiss him in the one dayers. I think Pant has such a game.  Pant needs some tinkering. His off-balance natural game can invite more scrutiny.  For one thing he has no concept of placement. That is the most important thing for risky stroke players. Even if you miscue it won't get to fielders. He has to develop a stable  stroke play.

[express bowling]

Khaleel Ahmed went back to bowling using his original style in the 3rd T20I  ... that is hitting the deck hard at 137 k to 145 k while trying to hit a good length usually  ... and not bowling too many slower balls or trying too many variations.

 

He kept things simple for a change.

 

Result ...  excellent economy rate of 6.75 in a T20 ... could have had a wicket when an easy catch lobbed off a good surprise bouncer but there was no one to catch it.

 

This should be thè way forward for him and he will gain confidence. And he will pick more skills with time as he plays more.

Edited November 12, 2019 by express bowling