While Sourav Ganguly has immense faith in Virat Kohli, the former captain has some advice for Kohli. Ganguly thinks that Kohli needs to be more consistent while selecting players.
On team selection
At an event in Mumbai Ganguly mentioned about Shreyas Iyer. He gave the example of Iyer and explained how he should be given the freedom to play enough matches.”Pick players and give them a bit more consistent opportunities – for them to get that confidence, rhythm, I have said that before. You saw how Shreyas Iyer played in that ODI series – you pick him and you give him the freedom to play those matches and I think that needs to happen with a lot of players and I am sure Virat will do that.”
He seemed surprised the way Kuldeep Yadav did not fit into Test squad against the Windies. Ganguly cited the last Test Kuldeep played against Australia where he got five wickets. “If you remember in Sydney on a good flat pitch, he picked up five wickets against Australia. But Jadeja also has been in good form, the surface yesterday at Antigua needed three fast bowlers because we saw the seam movement the fast bowlers got and it was a question of the spin.”
On Test team selection in Windies
A decision that shocked everyone was R Ashwin‘s exclusion from the first Test against West Indies. Ganguly explained the scenario and opined, “Ashwin’s record is phenomenal to leave him out in the West Indies, so it’s a decision which Kohli has made and we will find out in the next couple of days how far Jadeja goes on to pick wickets on this surface. Because this pitch will get up and down, as the game progresses, you can see that sort of indication from the first day of the Test, we will have to wait to see but that’s the competition of Indian cricket.”
Ganguly also believes that the team head coach Ravi Shastri, who has been with the team for a while should be work together effectively now and win world titles.
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