Former India selector MSK Prasad has credited the Indian staff’s latest success and bench energy to their technique of shortlisting 60 to 80 gamers from home competitions and grooming them for the best type of cricket. “Through India A cricket, we shortlisted some 60 to 80 gamers that we needed to comply with in home cricket,” Prasad, a former India wicketkeeper-batsman was quoted as saying in The Cricket Monthly.
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“We posted ourselves for all those matches where these 60 players were playing. Otherwise, you have 15-16 first-class matches going on every day. You can’t keep running here and there.”
Prasad, who was the chief selector till final yr, stated the sectors would search for constant performers within the staff and hold them on standby and able to substitute these on the wane within the nationwide staff.
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The effort paid off on India’s 2020-21 tour of Australia when numerous frontline gamers couldn’t play the final Test. However, the standby gamers who changed them upset Australia within the fourth and remaining Test in Brisbane and clinched the sequence.
“How did we establish these 60 gamers? [We looked for] constant performers during the last two years in several codecs, who would be the excellent successors for gamers who, 4 years down the road, may get superannuated within the senior staff. For instance, Murali Vijay. We had Mayank Agarwal and Priyank Panchal prepared,” said Prasad.
The players picked would be sent on tours with India A. The players would also be given a programme for training and keeping themselves fit.
Prasad said a system of identification and nurturing of talent through camps at National Cricket Academy (NCA) and India A tours helped, especially in the case of bowlers, who would be ready to play international cricket when given an opportunity.
“Earlier every bowler used to think from his mind-set and from his own trial-and-error methods. They would keep trying to do things, but today everything is pre-set and pre-programmed. You have a clear-cut plan, what sort of lines and lengths you have to bowl to a particular batter and which are the areas where he is weak,” stated Prasad.
“They are positive of their bowling, they know the way to get batsmen out, and they’re match sufficient to maintain doing it. Earlier bowlers used to do nicely for 2 Tests, get injured and are available again after two-three sequence. That isn’t occurring anymore. Credit must be given to Shankar Basu and the opposite trainers and physios on the NCA,” he said.
Parasad said emphasis is laid on technical aspects.
“A lot of technical analysis goes on. Even during their pre-season and off season, every player is given a particular schedule, how to look after themselves. They know about their body, they know that these are the areas that might get weakened if they play continuously. This is the kind of expertise that has come into Indian team, which is really helping the fast bowling.”
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