Ahmedabad ODI: Question on the strategy of 6 bowlers of Indian team

Last Updated:February 12, 2025, 14:15 IST

These days what is happening in Indian cricket is not getting down anyone’s neck. In the Ahmedabad ODI, the Indian team management fielded 6 bowlers, including 3 spinners and 3 fast bowlers. This is a different issue that…Read more

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New DelhiYou are shocked by a decision and many decisions surprise you. These days what is happening in Indian cricket is not getting down anyone’s neck. Indian fans were not able to recover from the experiment in Australia that in the final match of the ODI series against England, the team management took such a team on the field, which will be seen by you.

In the Ahmedabad ODI, the Indian team management fielded 6 bowlers, including 3 spinners and 3 fast bowlers. It is a different issue that 4 of these bowlers also bat, but this does not mean that the team does not need special batsmen. This is a strategy that shows that the team management has neither trusting its specialist batsmen nor on spacelist bowlers.

Toss, team and tension

Everyone was surprised when Rohit started telling his playing XI after losing the third consecutive toss in Ahmedabad. The next name that came after captain Rohit, Shubman Gill, Virat Kohli and Shreyas Ayer in the team started from the names of the bowlers. Do not know how many years there were 6 such names in the Indian team whose work is batting first, ie bowling all -rounder. Akshar Patel, Washington Sundar, Hardik Pandya batting, but the next three names are Arshdeep Singh, Harshit Rana and Kuldeep Yadav specialist bowlers. That is, the team management has launched an army of bowlers. If you look at the history, there will hardly be so many bowling options in the Indian team, which is probably not needed at all.

The intention behind feeding more bowlers

Fear is the word that always forces you to make a safe strategy and takes wrong decisions to save what can be wrong next. That is, if 1 did not score, then it will make 2, 2 will not make it, then it is 3-5-6 or in the same way, it becomes a thinking about bowling that if the spinner of the left hand does not go, then you also keep the spinner too. If the sharp ghedbag does not run, then keep the backup and if no one goes to the team, then change the team. Due to the strategy of covering this, lose the Test series in Australia and now it has started again in ODI cricket. Due to lack of trust in their specialist players, a large number of all -rounders have become part of the playing XI, but the question is that the batsmen who have been working for scoring runs for years will be able to fill the improvised batsmen in their place.