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Navjot Singh Sidhu has suggested the staff to begin making ready for the England tour.© AFP
The Indian cricket staff, recent from their historic Champions Trophy triumph, head right into a break from worldwide cricket. With the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) set to begin in 9 days time, the Rohit Sharma-led aspect will now be seen in motion through the upcoming England tour, slated to get underway in June. Nevertheless, former India batter Navjot Singh Sidhu has suggested the staff to begin making ready for the tour as early as doable, mentioning Rohit and his males’s current struggles in red-ball cricket. Whereas chatting with Sports activities Tak, Sidhu make clear the challenges awaiting India through the five-match Take a look at sequence.
“The thing to be worried about is that the IPL is now coming up next. No one is ready to sit out the IPL. They will play the league and then all of a sudden comes the England tour. Conditions will shift from North Pole to South Pole. Completely different. Moreover, India’s last Test series in England had started on August 4. This time, it is ending on August 2. The matches are in June and July. There will be grass and moisture and the air will be so heavy that the ball will gain ample movement. And then it will move more off the seam,” mentioned Sidhu.
India did not qualify for the World Take a look at Championship (WTC) remaining after a heavy loss to Australia within the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in January earlier this yr.
Sidhu warned that India want to seek out stable replacements for all-rounders and white-ball specialists Hardik Pandya and Axar Patel within the center order.
“England are sitting ready at home in their conditions and they are like wounded tigers. They have been beaten and defeated. India’s biggest problem is that in the middle order there are no all-rounders the way you see in white ball cricket. Is there a Ravindra Jadeja, or Hardik Pandya or Axar Patel? There is only Jadeja among these three and even he will be limited there. Will he take 4-5 wickets in an innings there? No,” he added.
The cricketer-turned-commentator additionally identified that India would wish to select their bowlers with out compromising on batting depth.
“For that you have to depend on someone like Jasprit Bumrah, Mohammed Shami, maybe Arshdeep Singh. You will have to bring a mystery spinner with all of them, that is England’s weakness. But India won’t expose Varun Chakravarthy. Or else they will play Kuldeep. So if these are your four bowlers, none of them bat. Then there is the problem of how to strengthen the batting order. These are the questions standing in front of India,” Sidhu identified.
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