Selectors will have to take hard calls: Sunil Gavaskar 

Indian Cricket Team [Source: Associated Press]

After India's failed T20 World Cup 2022 campaign, a lot of concern has been raised around team selection and the Indian management. Former Indian batting legend Sunil Gavaskar has stood by the Indian team and defended the decisions. Although he believes that the key decision making power should lie with the selectors. 

What Gavaskar said 

 “None of these questions would have come if we had won the match. You lose one match and we start taking potshots at the team.”

“I know there are issues that can be looked at, for example the workload management thing. I think we should also look at the number of members we carry. Too many talking heads can confuse players. These are things that the powers that be should be thinking but let's not talk about wholesale changes just because we have lost." 

"If we had gone to the final, we would have been talking about who should be playing in the XI. We are very famous for these knee-jerk reactions and having a go at our team when we lose, don't think it's the right way. I know we need to look at measures to strengthen our teams and for that if we have to take hard calls, other than you and me there is a selection committee that is appointed so they will have to take the hard calls.”

India is all set to take on New Zealand in the next series and then will travel to Bangladesh for a bilateral series for the World Test Championship. 

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