Cricket teams, especially their core units, have a tenure linked to World Cups. The modern era however queered the pitch by featuring two World Cups, the conventional ODI-based one and the T20 variant. Instead of the once-in-four-years sporting extravaganza, every alternate year now throws up a global cricketing event.
It has also added to the selector’s woes. Do you place Tests on one side and club ODIs and T20Is together? Or do you get granular even within the ODI and T20 arc and finesse teams accordingly? The return of skipper Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli to the Indian T20 ranks, seems to reveal both hope and some apprehension about the road ahead.
The coming months constitute a path that leads to the ICC T20 World Cup in the West Indies and the United States. These three T20Is involving Afghanistan and the Indian Premier League, will be seen as steps leading towards the ICC event.
