Why is Team India’s batting failing? (PC-PTI)
After losing the Kolkata Test, the Indian team is now on the verge of defeat in the Guwahati Test also. On the third day of the Guwahati Test, South Africa has taken a lead of 314 runs over India and still has 10 wickets left and two days of play are left. The biggest question here is what are the Indian batsmen doing? Team India, which surrendered on the spin-friendly pitch in Kolkata, was also seen surrendering on the Pata pitch in Guwahati. This time, it was not the spinners but South African fast bowler Marco Johnson troubled the Indian batsmen with his pace. The question is, why is it happening that Team India’s batsmen are neither able to play pace nor spin? Let us tell you the reason for this.
Gautam Gambhir’s thinking
Be it a player or a team, she moves forward with some thought in mind and follows the thinking of Team India. Gautam Gambhir Are. Head coach Gautam Gambhir has placed a lot of bets on all-rounders instead of batting specialists in the Test team. The biggest example is Jadeja. Reddy. There are three all-rounders like Washington Sundar in the team. The team did not use Nitish Reddy much in bowling in Guwahati and he failed in batting also. Before Gautam Gambhir, Team India used to rely more on specialist players in Test matches and it also benefited from it, but now exactly the opposite is happening and the result is in front of the world.
The balance of the team got disturbed in the name of talent and age.
There is no doubt that every team wants to bet more on talented players and young players, but there should be a limit to this too. While commentating during the Guwahati Test match, former captain Anil Kumble said that Virat Kohli will help Team India. Rohit Sharma. There are problems due to Ajinkya Rahane and Cheteshwar Pujara going together. These four played more than 80 test matches. All four were specialist batsmen. Now due to their absence, the burden has fallen on the young players. As a result, he is falling apart in front of the quality bowling attack.
overwhelmed with aggression
In the current era, the Indian cricket team is trying to play very aggressive cricket. Something similar was seen in the Guwahati test also. Rishabh Pant. Players like Dhruv Jurel were out after playing aggressive shots. This competition to score runs as quickly as possible is hurting Team India. There is a great need for good defense in a Test match and here the young Test cricketers of India seem to be lagging far behind. This is the reason why the team is facing problems in front of quality spin bowling and pace bowling attacks.
Shortage of test specialist batsmen
The players playing in the current Team India are not complete Test specialists. Sai Sudarshan has definitely scored runs in white ball cricket but he does not have much experience in domestic cricket. Dhruv Jurel is also inexperienced in first class cricket. Washington Sundar also has a similar story. The big thing is that Karun Nair. Sarfaraz Khan. Players like Abhimanyu Easwaran. Those who have scored a lot of runs on Indian soil are not a part of the team. In such a situation, Team India will have to identify Test specialist batsmen in the coming time, otherwise the result will be similar.