BCCI to discuss New Zealand debacle, some star seniors could be phased out post Australia series

[rollingstoned]

BCCI to discuss New Zealand debacle, some star seniors could be phased out post Australia series

The future of some senior India players will be decided after the tour of Australia as the BCCI evaluates the shocking 0-3 drubbing against New Zealand at home while rolling out a structured phaseout policy before the start of the next WTC cycle.

 

 

 

There is a high possibility that the five-match Test series against Australia could be the final one for at least two of the four seniors among Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, Ravindra Jadeja and Ravichandran Ashwin, who are in the last leg of their international careers.

"Look, I don't think we can look that far ahead. It's important to focus on the next series, which is Australia," Rohit said when asked for his thoughts on India's Test future given there is limited time left in his captaincy.

 

 

I'm not going to look beyond Australia series. Australia series, for us is now very, very important. We will try and focus on that rather than thinking what happens after," he said.

An informal discussion could take place between BCCI bigwigs and chairman of selectors Ajit Agarkar, head coach Gautam Gambhir, and skipper Rohit about the way forward for an ageing team.

"Stocks will be taken certainly and it could be of informal nature since the team leaves for Australia on November 10. But this has been a huge debacle but, with Australia series round the corner and the squad already announced, there won't be any tinkering," a senior BCCI source told PTI on the condition of anonymity.

"But if India doesn't qualify for WTC final in England, one can be rest assured that all four super seniors won't be on that flight to UK for the ensuing five-Test series. In any case, all four have likely played their final Test at home together," the source added.

It is understood that the BCCI is not keen on repeating the 2011 saga when suddenly an old team was found to be out of sorts and hence the selectors, especially chairman Agarkar and head coach Gambhir, would need to talk to the senior cricketers about the plan ahead.

 

 

For India to not depend on any other calculations to qualify for the WTC final, they would require a 4-0 result Down Under, which as of now looks next to impossible.

India can still qualify after losing the Border Gavaskar-Trophy if other teams don't fare well.

But once the Australia series is over and if India don't qualify -- the next cycle will start with five Test series in England from June 20 next year at Leeds -- the selection committee might be compelled to look at long-term prospects with chances given to players like Sai Sudharsan, Devdutt Padikkal, who look ready for international cricket.

With Washington Sundar emerging as a strong prospect for the next 10 years, Ashwin's future in India whites could be up for discussion once the Australia series gets over.

Jadeja, with better fitness and handy batting on foreign tracks, might be persisted with although there is a ready replacement for Indian conditions in Axar Patel,with Manav Suthar being third in the pecking order.

In case of batters, between February 2021 to the current match, skipper Rohit Sharma scored 1210 runs from 35 innings in home Tests at an average of 37.81 with four hundreds, but in the last 10 innings, there has been six scores of less than 10 runs and two scores of less than 20, with two half-centuries.

During the same period, Virat Kohli has played 25 innings at home for 742 runs at an average of 30.91, and one century on a flat Ahmedabad deck.

"No doubt pitches in Australia will be far better for batting but erasing self doubts after this kind of humiliation will be a difficult ask," a former selector said.

While Kohli with his supreme fitness can overstay his invitation despite poor returns for close to four years, one can't see Rohit playing beyond this cycle of World Test Championship.

Jasprit Bumrah has been named vice-captain but he might not be the long-term solution due to his workload management, with Shubman Gill and Rishabh Pant being the two candidates who look suitable for Test leadership.

 

 

 

Doesn't look like they will change anything for the BGT. 

 

 

 

[Ultimate_Game]

Then why don't kick them out now? Why wait for another humiliation knowing fully well oldies are done and dusted?

 

All it takes is replace oldies with performing domestic players and you're done.

[rollingstoned]

1 minute ago, Ultimate_Game said:

Then why don't kick them out now? Why wait for another humiliation knowing fully well oldies are done and dusted?

 

All it takes is replace oldies with performing domestic players and you're done.

It means had we swept this series as was expected they weren't going anywhere. It's only the nature of this humiliation that they're even talking of phasing them out. 

[goose]

make it 3 series wins in row in aus and all will be forgiven.

[New guy]

5 minutes ago, rollingstoned said:

It means had we swept this series as was expected they weren't going anywhere. It's only the nature of this humiliation that they're even talking of phasing them out. 

It also means if one of them scores a 50 or 2 in BGT they wont be dropped.

[Ultimate_Game]

1 minute ago, rollingstoned said:

It means had we swept this series as was expected they weren't going anywhere. It's only the nature of this humiliation that they're even talking of phasing them out. 

 

Kohli hasn't done shyte in Tests for 5 years now. Rohit and Kohli have consistently come up short in ICC tourneys. They've wasted our greatest bowling attack for more than a decade. Bumrah, Shami and rest of our bowling deserved so much more but thanks to the batters shytting the bed every single time, we didn't win anything despite minnows like SL, WI, Pak winning a tourney.

 

And this is not some close loss. This was a humiliation of epic proportions. We lost for the first time in our history to NZ at home, and we were clean swept at home for the first time ever. Let that sink in. Two epic historic humiliations rolled into one. This average NZ side which was hammered by SL 3-0 just last month did what even the great WI teams or invincible Aussies were not able to do.

 

This requires more than a "we'll see  after the Aus tour" response. This requires accountability at every level. Both players and selectors need to be called out and changes made ASAP. How can you have a non-performing captain leading the team and the so called most "experienced" batter in Kohli laying eggs for 5 years without any repercussion?

[Ultimate_Game]

8 minutes ago, goose said:

make it 3 series wins in row in aus and all will be forgiven.

 

Kohli needs to run away just like he did last time and Rohit needs to make up IPL excuse just like he did in Eng in 2021 for that to happen. We can't win with these two bozos in the team.

[Suhaan]

Inse pehle inki PR agency pe scam ka mukaddama chalao

[goose]

given how important this series is i say again send sos to pujara

[DeepSpace]

Why wait for after the Aussies series? It will be a masacre. Save these maharathis from hemorrhoids because they have given so much for Bharatmata!!

[nitinbwj]

You mean they will wait till these maharathis get more zalalat and laanat and get whitewashed 5-0 in Aus. 

[Lord]

1 hour ago, goose said:

given how important this series is i say again send sos to pujara

 

[vvvslaxman]

So they have to suck in 5 more tests? Seriously BCCI

[figo6762]

Yeah 100 percent sure that Aussie and Bcci cabal want these uncles playing in the series to generate revenue … 

 

Rohit and kohli are just clowns in the circus that Bcci is running … imagine the ads that they would created by now with these idiots for the Aussie tour. where will they run the ads  if they get dropped … 

 

3-4 month lead time allows BCCI to mint a new sooper star for this nation to fall in love with 

 

its hunger games Y’ll .. 

[Serpico]

1 hour ago, goose said:

given how important this series is i say again send sos to pujara

He got hit on 18 different places on body, 4 years ago. His reflexes must have deteriorated even more now, it'll be cruel to send him to Australia 

[figo6762]

The same reason Sai Sudarsan Sai Kishore will never make it … 

 

they don’t have the looks … you know the gill look … our next captain … 

[G_B_]

Rohit in much better form than Kohli.

 

Hope these selfish fudgers realise they will be humiliated and retire

[Ultimate_Game]

2 hours ago, New guy said:

It also means if one of them scores a 50 or 2 in BGT they wont be dropped.

 

50 in the entire series or 50 in one innings?

[Ultimate_Game]

13 minutes ago, G_B_ said:

Rohit in much better form than Kohli.

 

Hope these selfish fudgers realise they will be humiliated and retire

 

They don't give a shyte. Kohli would already be preparing to catch a flight to UK for another "break", and Rohit would be busy telling everyone around him what a "chanakya" he was in the WT20.

[Stutter]

I think the responsible thing to do for Rohit would be to relinquish captaincy (if he truly accepts underperforming as a leader, as he stated in the post-match interview), "skip" the Australian tour and instead join the Mumbai Ranji team, after his Jr comes around.  

Give Jaiswal & whosoever-replaces-Rohit a decent run in Australia. 
 

Sai Sudarshan should replace Rohit in the squad on account of his performance in the first test. Any batter performing decently at the MCG in the second "A" test turn into standbys for the main squad.

 

BCCI should pull the emergency brake right now and make the swaps based on the current form.