Virat Kohli, Jasprit Bumrah, and Rohit Sharma are being rested from the West Indies tour. He was away from international cricket even in the month of June after the IPL
When Team India was announced for the West Indies tour, it was known that the selectors have rested Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, and Jasprit Bumrah. These three players IPL ( IPL 2022 )) were on rest in the month of June. In such a situation, questions arose as to how he could be rested after just seven international matches in England. Meanwhile, data has come out which shows that the three players of BCCI’s A-plus category, Virat, Rohit and Bumrah have not played any ODI match together since January 2020. These days, two and a half years have passed since the heavyweight players played one-day matches in Team India together. Jassi, Hitman, and Kohli played one-day matches for the last time together before the Corona epidemic. The last time all three were seen playing ODIs together was during Australia’s tour of India on 19 January 2020.
Team India is not focused on ODIs
Since the year 2020, Team India has played only six ODI series. This shows that the focus of BCCI was not on 50 overs cricket during this period. Only in the end did Team India appear in international cricket due to the Corona epidemic in 2020. Due to the busyness of IPL and the T20 World Cup in 2021, more focus remained on the shortest format of the game. Similarly, this year along with the T20 World Cup, the Asia Cup is also to be held at the end of August. This is the reason why India has not played much ODI cricket this year.
Didn’t play together for different reasons
In January this year, when Team India was on the tour of South Africa, Rohit Sharma was not available due to injury. West Indies came to India in February. Then three ODIs were played. During this, Virat and Rohit were available but due to injury, Bumrah was rested. If all goes well, then Rohit-Virat and Bumrah will be seen playing one-day matches together in England.
