Team India’s captain Rohit Sharma has said that domestic tournaments like Ranji Trophy are very important for team selection for Test and ODI. He admitted that IPL is also an important tournament for selection, but he said that its arrival has not reduced the importance of India’s major domestic competitions. Let us tell you, India had to face defeat 2-0 in the three match ODI series against Sri Lanka, the first match of the series was a tie. India has lost the ODI series to Sri Lanka after 1997. In this match, Indian batsmen were seen struggling on the slow pitches of Sri Lanka.
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After the match, Rohit Sharma was asked in the press conference whether he would advise India’s young batsmen to play more domestic cricket? In response to this, the Hitman clarified that India’s domestic structure is the most important in terms of selecting players for the Test and ODI teams.
Rohit Sharma said, ‘Our goal has always been this – to ensure that the players who are available play Ranji Trophy. Our domestic cricket is the backbone of our international cricket. Many players who are now representing the country have come up playing domestic cricket, so our domestic cricket is important for everyone. We want to ensure that it remains competitive.’
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The captain further said, “We get players from the domestic circuit, not from IPL. When you select players for Test and ODI cricket, there is a lot of discussion on who is performing well in Ranji Trophy, ODI format, Syed Mushtaq Ali and other such competitions.”
Talking in detail about the growing importance of IPL amid the growing craze of T20 cricket, Rohit said that this league has its own importance.
“IPL is definitely a format where the challenges are different. It is a competition between the two. IPL is also our cricket – it is the Indian Premier League. In the end, whoever performs well in all these tournaments will be selected,” Rohit said.
