A call on Shikhar Dhawan’s future expected after Ishan Kishan emerges strong contender | Cricket News
Dhawan has struggled badly in eight of his last nine ODIs. In addition, the left-hander hit the ball with an outdated approach, which is detrimental to the team during Powerplay.
It is not always by intention but also by the inability to stay in tune with a limited number of shots to choose from. Shubman carries or a more innovative Kishan in today’s T20 era.
While no date has been given, BCCI will hold a team performance review meeting and discuss the roadmap with head coach Dravid and NCA head VVS Laxman on the road ahead.
As PTI reported during the T20 World Cup in Australia, a source confirmed the process of phasing out senior players will begin next year.
“A call on Shikhar’s future will only be made after a new selection committee is appointed. But the views of head coach Rahul Dravid and captain Rohit Sharma cannot be ignored,” a BCCI-level source said. High profiler told PTI on condition of anonymity.
The main problem with Dhawan is that his scoring rate plummeted from 100 plus until the 2019 World Cup to a dismal 75 in 2022.
After Ishan Kishan’s couple of hundred and more importantly, the freshness he brings in his approach, is sure to make the team leadership ponder the sensitive choice issue.
It is not easy to dismiss a player who has played 167 ODIs and is currently third (6,793) on the current list of India runners behind Rohit (9454) and Virat Kohli (12471).
There is a school of thought that Dhawan will be awarded at least the last six ODIs in January ahead of Sri Lanka and New Zealand, then call ahead of Australia’s ODIs in late March.
But the argument against that is what will happen when Shubman Gill, who has been one of the most consistent ODI hitters of the past six months, returns to ODI in January.
For some strange reason, the outgoing committee headed by Chetan Sharma decided to give Gill a break from the Bangladesh ODIs even though the young tennis player doesn’t have much of a workload as he doesn’t even have one. participate in the squad of the Asian Cup or the T20 World Cup.
There have not been any Test matches held after the game against England in July.
When hitters like Gill and Kishan are waiting on the wing, it’s hard to keep them in the pose for too long. Also, Dhawan, Rohit and Kohli couldn’t play in the same ODI XI as Rohit, KL Rahul and Kohli couldn’t make the top three in T20I.
Kohli, it has been observed in recent times, prefers to act as an anchor more often with a designated executor on the other end doing the preloading or heavy lifting.
Even Captain Rohit can play his own offensive game if a player like Gill or Kishan is holding the fortress at the other end.
Dhawan also plays in a style where he starts cautiously and only accelerates deep into the middle circles, to make up for the amount of dotted ball he consumes.
That conservative style has sometimes hurt India and Britain has shown that now is the time to change its approach.
Therefore, it will be increasingly difficult for Dhawan to keep his place in the ODI system.
Another aspect that will bother the decision makers is that other than ODI, he doesn’t play any format. While he has played one domestic T20 game (Syed Mushtaq Ai Trophy) and two over 50s (Vijay Hazare), Dhawan has not played any first place games in the past four years.
“There is no substitute game time. You mean Shikhar will start playing ODI in mid-January without any training for the next month. Even Surya is committed to playing matches. Ranji Trophy for Mumbai when he wanted to join the trench.
“You can understand when he plays multiple formats. So on what basis would you pick him,” said a former national selector who has worked with both MS Dhoni and Virat Kohli.
Most separate teams are expected for ODI and T20Is
India has a packed calendar starting with the home season from January 3.
While there is a lot of curiosity about Rohit’s future as T20I captain and Hardik Pandya’s imminent ascension to the throne, the way BCCI works, one may not see any decision. introduced but may follow a silent removal process.
Between January 3 and February 1, India played 12 whiteball games over a 29-day period, including six against New Zealand and six against Sri Lanka.
Six ODIs and six T20Is in 12 different cities, which also means 12 different flights. While migration is an underrated aspect of workload management, it is expected that the T20Is and ODIs will have at least 75 to 80 percent different names.
The ODI team may have players that the team management thinks will play the 2023 version..
“Why do you need to announce Rohit’s removal from the T20I captaincy? Is T20I a priority in 2023? No. BCCI has never acted on public sentiment. It has style. its own activities,” said a former member of BCCI.
“But yes, you could easily ask Rohit, Virat and KL Rahul to focus on the ODI and Test series against Australia, the more important things at the moment, and let Hardik take the lead in six T20Is.”
