Cricket News: BCCI with multiple strategies

This was mainly because India adopted it just one way, by rotating struggling players, which means players were always under pressure of opportunities to follow their performance. 

Thus, rotation holds more value if players are rested only after given sufficient opportunities when considering form apart from workload management. Now the BCCI is trying to adopt such a pattern only, trying multiple teams in multiple nation leagues to test their bench strength while allowing opportunities for young talent found in domestic leagues like IPL.

While India is executing such a strategy for the first time under various circumstances, much criticism has been raised since then. Whether it is about multiple and frequent rests given to star players like Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, and Jasprit Bumrah or depriving less opportunity to IPL finds like Arshdeep Singh, Rahul Tripathi, and Deepak Hooda, decisions have been under the radar. 

BCCI President Saurav Ganguly, in an interview, tried to take a dig at senior players and their frequent rest. He said, "I played for India for 13 years without a break before that. I hadn't missed anything, not a series or tour. I hadn't taken any rest like a lot of the players do now".

He added, "Throughout my international career, I have believed that the more you play, the better and fitter you will be. At this stage you need 'game time' and the more matches you play, the stronger your body will be. Yes, IPL started in 2008 but I would like you to see how much international cricket we have played in our career. If you compare, the level of international cricket for the Indian team has not increased much in the calendar year. We played a lot of one-day cricket, so if you see, the number of days for international matches is almost the same."