Indian Cricket Team Selection: Reward & Deprivation
Indian Cricket Team Selection: Reward & Deprivation The World’s toughest league, IPL, is over. The challenges are enormous for Cricket India in the next few months, with team build-up leading to the Asia Cup Cricket, 2027 ODI World Cup and the 2027 World Test Championships. The need is to field the best team based on performance to be at the top of the performance table. Indian Cricket can boast of multiple talented players and a strong bench strength in the white-ball format; thus, it becomes equally important to field the best team in all tournaments. BCCI and the selectors have made it clear with some bold decisions: rewarding players for their performances and, in a few cases, visible deprivation. T20 Teams for the upcoming bilateral series and Asian Games. The performances in the Indian Premier League should have been the yardstick for selection, and the selection committee has maintained that spirit by axing the Team India Captain till recently Surya Kumar Yadav with th...