A courageous India begins on street to residence World Cup 2023 in bid to finish title drought

An ICC title has eluded India’s males’s senior group for almost a decade.

Despite coming near breaking the jinx a couple of occasions, the star-studded group has repeatedly fumbled, elevating questions over its potential.

However, with one other version of the ODI World Cup beckoning – at residence in October-November – India hopes to finish the trophy drought. Hardik Pandya, one of many key members of the group and the stand-in skipper for the primary ODI towards Australia, believes that the group will attempt to be a ‘little brave’, main as much as the match.

“I don’t think we have tried anything new. We will be trying to be a little brave which I think in the last couple of series we have done quite well. All these bilaterals are as challenging, they can get as close to the wire as they can. That is the only way we are going to learn and start playing under pressure of knockouts,” Pandya mentioned. “The past is past, we don’t need to look at that right now. We are hoping for the best things to come…”

In the previous, he has led India in T20Is, however Friday will mark Pandya’s debut because the ODI captain, and he’s wanting ahead to the problem. “ODIs are just an extension of the T20 game in which you have to make a lot of changes. You have to be at it because every over, every ball changes the game,” Pandya mentioned.

“In ODIs you have more set plans, once you start something the same plan could be going on for six overs. It is just (about) how we can control that period…”

Soon after the Australia ODIs finish, the gamers will get busy with the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Pandya believes that it received’t be a problem to make it possible for the gamers are centered for the bilateral collection.

“We all are professionals and this is not the first time we are playing the IPL. This is going to be my ninth or 10th season and almost everyone has been around for far too long. Playing for the country is a different honour and pride so that does not even come into question. To be very honest, I had to think about this question because I don’t think any individual has got this thought of motivating more because the IPL is around. IPL is IPL and how we take it series-by-series, even the IPL will be the same…”

The IPL begins on March 31 in Ahmedabad with Pandya’s defending champion Gujarat Titans taking over Chennai Super Kings.