In a candid evaluation of the latest adoption of cut up captaincy by the Indian cricket staff for the South Africa tour, former cricketer Irfan Pathan expressed reservations, stating that he’s not a giant fan of the concept and hopes it doesn’t change into a cultural norm for Indian cricket.
The upcoming multi-format collection towards South Africa will witness totally different captains for every format, with KL Rahul main the ODI staff, Suryakumar Yadav captaining the T20I facet, and Rohit Sharma taking cost within the Take a look at collection. Whereas the transfer is seen as a method for workload administration, Pathan believes it indicators potential modifications sooner or later.
“This could possibly be an indication for the long run, which I’m not a giant fan of. There was speak for a very long time about whether or not we will do cut up captaincy. It’s true workload administration has been performed right here, and that’s the reason you might be seeing such huge squads and totally different captains,” Pathan expressed throughout a dialogue on the Star Sports activities present Sport Plan.
He additional speculated that this pattern may prolong to having totally 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 Take a look at cricket. Nonetheless, you may see this stuff going ahead. You may even see totally different coaches for various codecs. I consider 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 strategy. He cited the instance of gamers like Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill, who showcase versatility by taking part in varied codecs.
“If we see white-ball and red-ball cricket, we solely have two or three gamers who’re totally different, the place you possibly can contemplate gamers like Cheteshwar Pujara and Ajinkya Rahane. Nonetheless, when you see aside from that, we usually have all-format gamers. If we speak about our children, you will note Shreyas Iyer and Shubman Gill enjoying in every single place. 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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