In a candid evaluation of the latest adoption of break up captaincy by the Indian cricket workforce for the South Africa tour, former cricketer Irfan Pathan expressed reservations, stating that he’s not an enormous fan of the thought and hopes it doesn’t turn out to be a cultural norm for Indian cricket.
The upcoming multi-format collection in opposition to South Africa will witness completely different captains for every format, with KL Rahul main the ODI workforce, Suryakumar Yadav captaining the T20I facet, and Rohit Sharma taking cost within the Check collection. Whereas the transfer is seen as a technique for workload administration, Pathan believes it alerts potential adjustments sooner or later.
“This could possibly be an indication for the longer term, which I’m not an enormous fan of. There was discuss for a very long time about whether or not we will do break up captaincy. It’s true workload administration has been completed right here, and that’s the reason you might be seeing such large squads and completely different captains,” Pathan expressed throughout a dialogue on the Star Sports activities present Recreation Plan.
He additional speculated that this pattern may lengthen to having completely different coaches for various codecs, a departure from the present Indian cricket tradition the place there may be consistency in each teaching and captaincy throughout codecs.
“It’s clear that Rohit Sharma needed to take a break from white-ball cricket, so you aren’t seeing him there. You’re seeing him because the captain of Check cricket. Nevertheless, you may see these items going ahead. You may even see completely different coaches for various codecs. I imagine it’s higher if it doesn’t occur in our tradition,” Pathan added.
Pathan emphasised the abundance of gamers within the Indian squad who play throughout all codecs, making continuity in teaching and captaincy a sensible and useful method. He cited the instance of gamers like Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill, who showcase versatility by taking part in numerous codecs.
“If we see white-ball and red-ball cricket, we solely have two or three gamers who’re completely different, the place you may contemplate gamers like Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. Nevertheless, should you see apart from that, we usually have all-format gamers. If we speak about our kids, you will note Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill enjoying in all places. So most of our gamers are like that, who play all codecs. That’s why in case you have 70 to 80% gamers who play all codecs, it’s higher if the coach and captain are additionally the identical,” he added.
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