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India’s multi-purpose Venkatesh Iyer raises eyebrows

Indian Venkatesh Iyer. (AP Photo) What is the role of Venkatesh Iyer in the team? This is one of the many draws that hover around the Indian ODI team playing the outdated cricket brand. There are a number of problems with the running speed of the top order, the lack of bowlers in the midst of the storms, the lack of finishers, but the case of Iyer is a good example of the camp’s confusion. Vice Captain KL Rahul and especially head coach Rahul Dravid can’t let go of the seam bowling that made their ODI debut on Wednesday from poor management.

The lack of a seamless overall player in white ball cricket has been the team’s biggest weakness of recent times, revealed at the T20 World Championships last year when the semi-fit Hardik Pandya’s selection was bumped. Iyer was accelerated to the Indian team after the tournament because voters saw him as an opportunity to fill the vacuum. He was selected by the team management before Suryakumar Yadavia for the first ODI, ostensibly to use him as a general player. He was also not given a single over, and the southern paw was not used properly as a batsman. If he hasn’t impressed the team’s leadership as a bowler, then why has he been picked up and lost from the bottom in an order where he can’t even show his hitting ability? What was the communication between the appellants and the management? The top class, as it is now, is grouped with beaters who want to spend time. Something needs to change to catch up. Iyer would actually be ideal there, because if he succeeds, it would give India a breakthrough in the rigidity they have slipped into. And they would have no better opportunity than these bilateral series to try alternatives.

The ongoing series against Proteas, or any bilateral series before the 2023 World Cup, is in a way irrelevant to India in terms of results. As the host of the ICC event, India is not part of the World Cup Super League as it will be eliminated automatically. From this perspective, bilateral sets offer Dravid and the company the opportunity to fix gaps / loopholes and reset the right players and the right combination.