Gautam Gambhir – Creating hype around young Indian players after two-three games will backfire

“We keep talking about runs and averages and all that, someone who bowls 150s. Sometimes when you go in conditions like the West Indies or Bangladesh, you don’t need someone who bowls 150. You need someone who bowls. That’s where the idea is. he’s lying there with the selectors Sometimes he selects a talent that hasn’t finished after two or three games.

“The graph is moving [up and down] in India, and it is not good for a young player. This is where the experts and analysts must weigh in when it comes to these young players. It is easy for them to get sidetracked from the hard work and good things they are doing. Because suddenly when you start talking about a young player who is doing well, it can set them back.

Gambhir emphasized the importance of domestic cricket and added that the IPL performance should not influence the selection of red ball cricket.

“The Indian T20I side should be selected from the IPL [performances],” said Gambhir. “In the 50-over format, it should be chosen from Vijay Hazare, and your Test side should be chosen from your first-class cricket, red-ball cricket. As simple as that. When you start picking people for 50-over format or red-ball cricket in the IPL tournament, you make a lot of shortcuts for these young players so that they don’t focus on red-ball cricket or 50-over format, and you go down the road.”

Gambhir – ‘Two new balls in ODIs is the worst thing in cricket’

The introduction of the new two-ball rule in ODIs, in 2011, was the “worst thing” to happen to cricket, Gambhir said. He added that this rule has led to fingerprints disappearing, which is why players like Ashwin and Australia’s Nathan Lyon haven’t made it big in the 50-over format at the time.

“The worst thing that has happened in cricket is the introduction of two new balls,” Gambhir told Ashwin. “You’ve removed all the finger-spinner’s ability from the game, whether it’s a left-arm spinner or an offspinner. You’ve got two new balls, you’ve got five players in, how do you expect the finger-spinner to find anything outside and how do you expect the finger-spinner to be included in the XI playing?

“If the ball manufacturer can’t keep the ball in good shape for 50 overs, he may change the manufacturer. Don’t start two new balls because one ball can’t hold any color for 50 overs.”

Gautam Gambhir

“You gave two of the best fingerprints in the world – you [Ashwin] and Nathan Lyon. The reason why you guys didn’t play was nothing to you. If you were bowling the 20th over, you bowl the new ball with 10 overs, and five bowlers in and on a flat track. And with big bats, with power hitters, with small boundaries, with small boundaries and above that DRS. It’s not about you and Nathan Lyon. It is about the work of the ICC. The ICC’s mission is to promote all types of bowlers who want to be offspinners and fingerspinners. Tell me how many young people come forward who want to take the fingers? Is this the art of bowling offspin or left-arm spin? Nobody would want to, because they know they have no future in white-ball cricket.”

Gambhir added that the ICC should have looked at “changing the manufacturers of the balls” rather than changing the existing rule that affects the players.

“I like that format or rule where you had one new ball. It’s not the player’s problem. If the ball manufacturer can’t keep the ball in good shape for 50 overs, he may change the manufacturer. Don’t start two new balls because one ball can’t hold any color in the overs -50 That’s a producer’s problem When people talk about taking wickets in the middle of the innings suddenly they realize that they are only taking wickets unless you have a carom ball or a blinker, but where is the art of actual bowling or left-arm spin that can beat people in the air or off the wicket too?

“Because there’s nothing out of the wicket and you’ve got five players in. So I think the ICC has messed it up and we can change it forward and have one ball for the whole 50 overs.”