Mumbai: National Voters, along with Skipper Virat Kohli, will hold a video conference for the next 24 hours to choose a 15 Cricketers team for the ICC T20 World Cup to be played in the UAE starting next month.
Voters will also choose some extra players to travel with the team as standbys.
The previous BCCI decided to limit the number of standards to five but can now add a few more to maintain the possibility of ‘third wave’ in mind.
Between 2020 Editions of the Indian Premier League (IPL) and Sri Lankan tours recently, most of the Indian potential T20 squad chose himself.
Where voters may have to step on carefully are trying to ensure that individual reputation does not replace individual talents, especially considering the Finicky format.
“A good batsman may not necessarily a good T20 batsman.
It’s kind of oxymoron, but it’s true they can write,” they said who tracked this development from the closest quarter.
For example, if the call must be taken between choosing Sanju Samson and Ishan Kishan, what barometer can be used by voters? Both young players with aggressive mindset, right for the format, both of them are batsmen wicketkeeper-batsmen.
Maybe a strong mix and consistency? At IPL-2020, Samson scored at the level of strike 158.89 – among the highest in the edition – but only managed 375 runs in 14 innings.
Kishan, on the other hand, enjoyed the level of attack which was slightly lower than 145.56 but scored 516 running in 13 innings, some of them single efforts to win the match.
Kishan’s average neat 57.33 compared to Samson 28.84 and saw his team up to the final where they lifted the trophy.
Shikhar Dhawan, if not ignored in the format, has raised his hand once again and how.
At IPL 2020, Dhawan is the top scorer in the tournament with 618 run out of 17 innings with a strike speed of 144.73.
In the 2021 edition, half finished too, Batsman Delhi remained at the top of the table.
Can the voter ignore it? Another example can be a kind of comparison between Washington Sundar and Varun Chakravarthy – not that Sundar is certainly in confinement, given the current status of the injury.
Sundar chose only eight goals at the IPL 2020 but it was closed at a greater economic level of 5.96 while Chakravarthy took 17 healthy goals with an economic level which was slightly higher 6.84.
The Thakur versatile hunter will weigh heavier now but it’s hard enough to compete with Adept Hardik Pandya?