Cricket: Indian team management has a lot of unanswered questions

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ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup at the MA Chidambaram Stadium in Chepauk, Chennai. Between this day and that day, Rohit Sharma and Co. will partake in a maximum of nine ODI games – six in the Asia Cup if India qualify for the final and three against visiting Australia. The Asia Cup, starting August 30, would provide a lot more clarity as to who will be burdened with the responsibility of bringing the Cup home. (Err! The World Cup is being held in India, but, hopefully, you got the drift.) But before that, Indian team management has a lot of important questions to address.HOLE IN THE MIDDLE Three players – KL Rahul, Shreyas Iyer and Rishabh Pant — who would have been a guarantee in the playing XI, have been injured for a while and are at different stages of recovery. Rahul and Iyer have good chances of getting fit in time for the World Cup, but will they be in prime shape, both physically and form-wise, to be trusted for such a big tournament? Pant, on the other hand, needs a miracle to make himself available for the World Cup. Even if he manages to perform the miracle, will he be ready? This has left Indian team management with a giant task of filling giant holes in the batting line-up.SURYA NOT SHINING BRIGHT Indian team management seems desperate for Suryakumar Yadav to bring his menacing 360-degree play, with which has taken the T20 cricket by storm, to the ODIs.

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That’s why he has been given so many opportunities despite not much success – no fifty, not even a forty, in the last 20 ODI innings. In 26 ODIs, Suryakumar has scored 511 runs at an average of just 24.33. It remains to be seen how far the team management is ready