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Virat Kohli India’s position is pretty much guaranteed T20 World Cup But the team Matthew Hayden BCCI is not sure if the selection committee is the way forward to select the 15-man squad. Kohli has achieved every batting record there is and is perhaps the greatest all-format batsman of all time, and yet Hayden, a two-time World Cup winner with Australia, could not ask Ajit Agarkar the tough questions, ‘Is Kohli good enough to win the T20 World Cup for India?’
Compared to six-time world champions Australia and India, their cricketing culture is chalk and cheese. Cricket Australia doesn’t think twice about fame. If the likes of Steve Smith, David Warner and Marcus Stoinis can’t handle the demands of modern T20 cricket, nothing will bring them back into contention. The same cannot be said about Team India and BCCI. While one can argue that Rohit Sharma and Kohli are better for T20Is, another theory suggests that the baton should be passed on to the next generation.
Meanwhile, Kohli has been the leading run scorer in the last two ICC tournaments – with over 700 runs in the 2023 World Cup and 296 runs in the 2022 T20I edition in Australia. In the ongoing IPL, despite the strike-rate debate, Kohli is again the Orange Cap holder with 500 runs. And yet, Hayden wants to know if Kohli is the direction Indian cricket wants to go.
“From an Australian cricket point of view, our philosophy is very simple. We don’t pick names or icons but pick who will win you the World Cup. We have our own debates on our front. David Warner… should he go? We have our challenges and we have won in the last 20 or 30 years. I think we are too good to think about what the team is,” he said at the Star Sports Press Room Show.
“This Virat Kohli debate is probably the primary debate here. Is he going to win the World Cup for you? I mean, his last ODI World Cup was a fantastic campaign. He hasn’t got anything wrong with his stats, not historically. He plays any tournament, so the challenge from me is to play great World Cup cricket against his experience. required.
While much hue and cry has been made about Kohli’s run-rate – a respectable 147 strike-rate – his struggles in the middle overs against spin have been heavily documented, even with some dismissals against Gujarat Titans’ Sai. Kishore and then follows it up with a fiery answer to his doubts. But with Caribbean and USA pitches being two-paced and unknown respectively, Kohli’s experience cannot be ruled out.
Signs on youth?
In contrast, Haydn refreshed the memory with a short trip down memory lane. November 2023 To be honest, a young Indian team there Suryakumar Yadav presided Beat Australia 4-1 with players like Rinku Singh Successful Jaiswal Enjoying a blazing T20I tournament. Is BCCI ready to risk it all?
“After all, India are playing 4 matches in the USA and they are unfamiliar conditions, or at least less familiar than the Caribbean. And statistically, if you look at the way Caribbean cricket is played, you have to face a lot. Spin through the middle order. So, outside the first six overs, that’s where Virat Kohli goes. The challenge is, when the pace comes off the ball and you are in a situation where you like great stroke-players like (Shivam). Dub Or Rinku is there to take you forward,” Hayden pointed out.
“So, you go with youth? I mean, when you look at the Indian second XI that played against Australia in November, you beat us – the world champions – 4-1 in that series and you’re playing guys like Gaikwad who are not in this discussion. Jaiswal would have got a hundred. Anyway, I think of the hierarchy. Challenged, do you go with the experience or the youth with the world at their feet, no baggage and coming into their own.
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