With India losing the Border Gavaskar Trophy, the calls for mandating the players to play the Ranji Trophy have grown louder. But Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma are now once again at the centre of the storm. Rohit Sharma failed miserably in the India vs Australia series, averaging a shambolic 6.20 in five innings. Virat Kohli scored a century in Perth but hardly made any impact in the next eight innings. However, even though fans and experts want the two superstars to grind in domestic cricket, the India Cricket Team haven’t really respected the work of players in Ranji or domestic cricket. Abhimanyu Easwaran and Sarfaraz Khan warmed the bench in the BGT despite scoring a plethora of runs in domestic cricket. In the Unfriendly Cricket Podcast, we discuss the hypocrisy of Ranii Trophy while not following it for deserving players.
