Former Indian batsman Sanjay Manjrekar stated that since India will play a lot of cricket abroad, selectors should choose players without the “IPL make-up” rather than blame the players for the T20I fiasco.
The reigning champions had a miserable tour, losing 0-2 to Ireland and then being humiliated 0-4 by England in the five-match Twenty20 International series, with the first game being cancelled. For the first time in three years, India lost a T20I series or tournament.
“The easy thing would be is to hold players responsible for this overseas T20 setback. The right thing would be is to hold those responsible who have made IPL such, that it puts a heavy make up on Indian batters,” Manjrekar wrote on ‘X’.
“Challenge is for the selectors to imagine Indian batters without the heavy IPL make up on & pick only those for India. A lot of T20 cricket will be overseas now. The home fun run is over.”
India will play three ODIs in England after the T20 series, and then they will tour Zimbabwe for a three-match T20I series beginning on July 23. In addition to two Test matches, the reigning champions will go to New Zealand in October and November for a series that includes five Twenty20 matches and five One-Day Internationals.
The IPL has frequently come under fire for promoting power-hitting over conventional stroke-making by providing batting-friendly grounds with little help for bowlers. Smaller boundaries and batting-friendly circumstances, according to critics, promote a power-hitting strategy at the price of establishing an innings, especially when the ball moves in foreign conditions.
Because teams frequently replace a specialist bowler with a specialist batter, the impact player rule has also been criticized for impeding the development of strong all-rounders. Parthiv Patel, a former wicketkeeper batsman, recently attributed the all-rounder dilemma on the IPL’s “Impact Player” rule.
