“Relaxing For Purpose Of Relaxing”: Experts Slam Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli’s 2nd ODI Absence | Cricket News

Only two months to go earlier than the ODI World Cup 2023 begins however the Indian workforce administration is making adjustments within the workforce which have left the followers and consultants baffling. The absence of Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma from the second ODI workforce in opposition to West Indies was an enormous head-scratcher. Many former Indian cricketers discovered little logic within the administration’s choice, saying the duo has performed little cricket, courtesy of their absence from India’s T20I squad. Hence, the choice to depart them out of the enjoying XI for the second ODI is perplexing.

Speaking on Jio Cinema, former India cricketer Aakash Chopra mentioned that he was not happy with the experimentation and felt the senior duo didn’t require relaxation for this match.

“I don’t know why Rohit and Virat were rested; they haven’t played a lot of cricket because if you see, after WTC final there was a break of three weeks and there was only seven days of play in the India-WI tests. After that you play one ODI and leave the next. If you want to leave the T20s aside, leave it. I mean even if you don’t play T20s this year, how is it going to affect anyone because we don’t have the T20 WC this year. Rohit and Kohli anyway, do not feature in T20Is. So, you are relaxing just with the purpose of relaxing,” he mentioned.

Another former batter, Abhishek Nayar, additionally believes that the strongest workforce ought to play.

“I believe since the time you are six to eight months away from a big tournament, you should play with your strongest eleven, unless there is an injury. Play with them only because once you do that, everyone gets to know each other’s strengths and it will help you to experience playing together in different situations and learn.”

Ex-India pacer RP Singh additionally emphasised on every participant’s position and mentioned, “You should know your eleven as we are so close to the World Cup. At least, you should know the ten key players and keep playing them. Also, as far as batting and bowling is concerned, their role should be similar to how they are willing to use them in the World Cup. So, if Hardik is using the new ball here, they must be thinking of using him during the World Cup with the new ball too, at least for a few overs. But the question arises – Can he make an impact with the new ball? Or who are the spinners they will go with and things like that.”