The Indian Premier League (IPL) should ideally be a perfect training ground in front of the T20 world.
But if we see Indian past performances, every time the blue people fail to qualify for the knock-out of the T20 world, they have entered the event after the IPL.
In fact, when they won in 2007, IPL was not there and in 2014 and 2016, when each of them made the final and semifi, the T20 world took place right before the IPL.
Former Indian coach Ramji Srinivasan, who with the team from 2009-13, his attributes into three players peaked before the world T20, the inability to adapt to an event where the margin of error was very few after the league was long and exhausted.
“Players provide the best for franchises and see to peak at the end of the IPL business.
It is very difficult to find the same high in two weeks,” said Ramji Toi.
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In the field, they froze, take it off, they have betrayed some confusion.
“There is only one way to play T20 Cricket.
You must be optimistic, you must be positive and take the calculated risk.
That’s this format about,” said Virat Kohli after the IPL, the team also got 14 matches and there was a UPS.
and get off on track.
“But in the world of T20, one or two bad days can end your event.
It happened to us in the 2009-12 phase,” said the coach, added that fatigue played the format for so long also took the victim.
TOI see the four T20 World Cups, including 2021, where India has missed (or will lose) Knock-outs2009: IPL 2009 took place in South Africa between April 18-May, while the T20 World Cup began 5.
Jun Indian players did not have time Recovery after two months of travel and busy cricket in South Africa.
Conditions in the UK are also different from what is in South Africa and MS Dhoni men lose all three Super 8 matches – to West Indies, South Africa and England – with coach Gary Kirsten said that the team suffered the fatigue of IPL.
It should be noted that Pakistan has no representation in the IPL and they proceed to win the world T20.
2010: This time, the Final IPL took place on April 25 and India was in West Indies as soon as for the world T20 from April 30.
This time also, India is miserable at Super 8s, down to Australia, Sri Lanka and West Indies.
The slow West Indies pitch is not conducive to Indian stroke players after two months run-fest on the IPL.
2012: 2012 disaster, perhaps, cannot be linked directly to the fatigue of the IPL, because India went to the World Cup in Sri Lanka two months after the event.
But then, as Ramji said before, the players had reached the top of their T20 during the franchise and it was difficult to make it back in the world of T20.
However, they won two matches in Super 8 and were eliminated at the level of running clean, with Australia and Pakistan through the group.
2021: If not because Covid, we will not come to this extraordinary situation where India must enter the T20 world right after the second phase of the IPL.
But when Jasprit BMrah shows, bubble fatigue may be a factor because all Indian stars have been in the UAE since September before the long series in the UK.
All the hype around adjusting to the UAE pitch by playing IPL has also fallen flat and teams like Pakistan and England, who have more fresh players after a decent break, has looked much more threatening so far.