“What is Indian cricket going to learn by picking the same seniors for the two Test matches who have now failed to deliver in two WTC finals?”, Gavaskar slams selectors.

 

Former Indian cricketer Sunil Gavaskar has expressed his disapproval of the Indian selectors’ decision to include senior players in the squad for the upcoming two-match Test series against the West Indies, starting next month. The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) almost retained the same squad that played in the ICC World Test Championship (WTC) final earlier this month, with only Cheteshwar Pujara, Umesh Yadav, and Mohammed Shami being left out.

Gavaskar criticized the selectors for this choice, stating that the series would only serve to boost the individual statistics of the senior players. He argued that including some young talent in the squad would have been a wiser decision, considering that the West Indies team is no longer the formidable force it once was.

Gavaskar in column for the Mid-Day wrote in his “What is Indian cricket going to learn by picking the same seniors for the two Test matches who have now failed to deliver in two World Test Championship finals?” How does it even matter if they score heaps of runs and take a bunch of wickets in the Caribbean apart from it bulking up their individual career stats?”

“West Indies are no more the force they were in the last century as can be seen by the fact that they are currently playing in Zimbabwe to try and qualify for the ODI World Cup 2023 that they won twice in the 70s. So picking some younger players for the Test series would have made more sense,”  he added moreover.