New Delhi: India's newly appointed head coach Gautam Gambhir said that his approach to picking players won't be based on a particular format as he feels players who are "good enough" should play all three formats.
Earlier this week, a new era in Indian cricket began after Gambhir succeeded Rahul Dravid as the new head coach.
Apart from Dravid's departure, the stalwart trio Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli and Ravindra Jadeja announced their retirements from the T20I format.
An action-packed schedule lies ahead of Gambhir and the Indian team. There have been speculations about the pool of players who could play under the new regime.
But Gambhir has made his selection process clear by stating his strong belief in players featuring across all three formats.
"I'm a very strong believer in one thing, that if you're good, you should be playing all the three formats. I've never been a big believer in injury management, you get injured, you go get recovered.
As simple as it gets. When you're playing international cricket and you're good enough, you ask any of the top players, if they want to play all the three formats.
They don't want to stay, and they don't want to be labelled as red-ball bowlers or white-ball bowlers. Injuries are part of sportsman's life," Gambhir told Star Sports.
"If you're playing all the three formats, you get injured, you go back, get recovered, but you should be playing all the three formats.
I am not a big believer in identifying people that, we're going to keep him for test matches or other formats. We're going to manage his injury and workload and stuff.
Professional cricketers, you've got a very small span when you're playing for your country, and you want to play as much as you can. And when you're in very good form, go ahead and play all the three formats," he added. (with Agency inputs)
