‘It seems that people are faulting…’ – Star India bowler defends team’s decision to rest Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli against WI
Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli (Source: Twitter)
India clinched the three-match ODI series 2-1 against West Indies. India’s two star batters, Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli played just the first game of the series and then both of them were rested for the remainder of the series. Seeing this, the fans were not happy with the management as well as with the head coach, Rahul Dravid. Star India bowler, Ravichandran Ashwin thinks that people are looking for opportunities to criticize the captain-coach duo without any reason to understand the scare of injuries ahead of the Asia Cup 2023 and ODI World Cup 2023.
“So many players are recovering at the NCA. (Jasprit) Bumrah is back after a long break. Prasidh Krishna also made a return after an injury break. It seems that people are faulting team management just for the sake of it. Some (people) were shocked because we lost to a team that didn’t qualify for the World Cup. Many people think that India’s only job in international cricket is to win the World Cup. People think India are favourites to win the World Cup because of the IPL,” Ashwin was quoted as saying on his YouTube channel.
India to face Australia in their ODI World Cup opener
The Tamil Nadu-born cricketer also talked about the upcoming ODI World Cup 2023, He stated the fans should support the Indian Cricket Team throughout the tournament. “Winning a World Cup is not easy guys. Just because we play a certain player or drop a certain player, we can’t win. All of us are hindsight kings. The hindsight operations don’t work here. We have qualified for the semi-final of almost all major tournaments. On that day we haven’t been good enough,” the 36-year-old asserted.
The much-awaited ODI World Cup 2023 is scheduled to kick off in the month of October. The first match will take place at the Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad, where the two finalists from the last edition, England and New Zealand will lock horns against each otherIndia will kick start their campaign against Australia on October 8 at the MA. Chidambaram, in Chennai. The ODI World Cup 2023 fixture between India and Pakistan was set to take place on October 15, however, the Indian Cricket Board has changed it to 14th October due to the auspicious festival of Navratri.
