Do you think Indian cricketers should be rotated?
By ajithlal
@ajithlal (14716)
India
February 4, 2007 2:09pm CST
Indian team is having a buzy schedule this year. They are lots of matches to come after World Cup. The chance of players getting injured are very high. Indian team already has around 20 to 25 players who have very good quality and can be replaced by others eg Laxman sitting out of ODI. Do you think Indian players should be rotated in such a way that 2 or 3 players should be given rest for every 2 to 3 matches and keep them fit and to reduce burn outs? Do you think there should be a good bench players also other than the eleven players in the team?
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7 responses
@ajithlal (14716)
• India
20 Feb 07
yes you are right. The players like Robin uthappa came only because he got chance when some players are rested. I think more and more talent will come and as you said will also reduce stress of the players. It is impossible to reduce the number of matches played during a season and the probabality of getting players injured is high. So I think why wait for players to get injured. It would be better to rest the players and keep them fit and also increase the brench strength and decrease the stress.
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@ossie16d (11821)
• Australia
16 Feb 07
I cannot really comment on the Indian Cricket Team because I do not know a lot about it. However here in Australia we have 2 teams, one of which plays in the Test Matches and the other which plays One Day Cricket. Now some players are on both teams but not all of them, which means they do get a rest from time to time. Australia has had 2 teams for a number of years now, and it has worked out well because quite a lot of good players are getting an opportunity to represent the country at an international level. It gives some variety and also allows the younger ones the opportunity to play for Australia.
Of course this season we had 4 players retire, or about to retire, and some of those played both Test and One Day Cricket and others were only in the 1 team. What it does mean however is that we still have a lot of good experienced cricketers to replace the retiring ones, and many of these have already represented Australia. However had we not had the 2 teams, then for 4 to retire in one season would leave a huge hole in the team.
When people play the same sport all the time they are bound to be injured but if they had a spell and say only played in the one sort, i.e. Test or One Day, then the chances of injury are reduced. Of course they can still be injured but the chances are reduced as they are not continually putting the same stress and strain on their body.
@milott (2646)
• India
12 Apr 07
Yes, they should be rotated with the hectic schedule for the indian team, it could lead to players burn out as it happened in world cup and this will also help the junior playrers to gain some experience. Talking about bench players, i dont think we have a very good bench strength after this bunch of the worthless cricketers who lost the world cup. i would suggest an option that is to deorganize the indian team and stop playing cricket which would improve our nation's progress with the future generation will not have access to cricket and will start concentrating on studies rather than supporting a below-average and over-hyped team.
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@anoop85 (106)
• India
19 Apr 07
it is a good idea to rotate indian cricket team because we are going to enter into a buzy schedule. through rotation system players also get enough rest time. but there is also a problem resembling this, that India is a cricket loving nation. cricket fans only need winning sequence from indian team when we are rotating the team, we can get the benefit of rotation only in a long run. youngsters can also bring victory to the side but it may be unexpected matter. becuase other than indian team every ODI team has a strong reserve bench that is almost equal strength with their regular team. so they can simply rotate the team without loosing the game. when india moving to their side with our less experienced players definitely we will pay for it. sometimes we may be defeated by associate counties. that will affect our ranking and it will make other problems. our cricket fans never tolerate this.
so my opinion is that only after creating a strong reserve bench, we can rotate our players.
for long running it is the best idea for india especially in this kind of situations. but we also must think about the benfits and consequences of this. so instead of rotating the international players we must strengthen our internal games that is the only idea to create good reserve players so at least for two or three years rotation system will bring problems to the team rather than benefits.
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
12 Apr 07
I do not really know because I do not know that much about cricket. But, I will take your words for it and I agree with you.







