The depth that the India cricket team has is incredible. The Men in Blue won the ICC Champions Trophy without Jasprit Bumrah, Yashasvi Jaiswal, and Rishabh Pant playing even one match.
Bumrah was injured, but the other two weren’t even considered. That’s how strong Team India was. Any other team would kill to have one of Jaiswal or Pant. But Rohit Sharma and Gautam Gambhir didn’t feel the need to.
India can field 3 teams in 3 formats at the same time
Mitchell Starc, who was part of Australia’s team that beat India to win and retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy after a decade, feels that India can field three teams in three different formats simultaneously.
Starc reckons the Men in Blue can take on Australia in Test cricket, England in ODIs, and South Africa in T20Is at the same time. Right now, India’s T20I team doesn’t have more than two players who play across formats. Abhishek Sharma, Sanju Samson, Tilak Varma, and Rinku Singh are the stars in the shortest format.
Those like Ruturaj Gaikwad, Ishan Kishan, Dhruv Jurel, and Avesh Khan can play in ODIs, and then you have the main Test team with the likes of Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Ravindra Jadeja, and Pant among others.
“I think they are probably the only nation that can have a Test team, a one-day team, and a T20 team play on the same day against Australia in the Test, England in the one-dayer, and South Africa in the T20I; and India will be competitive. No other country can do that,” said Starc to FanaticsTV.
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