NEW DELHI: The back-up wicketkeeper in Indian cricket remains as elusive because it was 15 years ago, when MS Dhoni had arrived as a relaxing balm for the selectors' headache. Now, each and every time selectors fall again on Parthiv Patel and Dinesh Karthik or are wondered concerning the tenability of an growing older Dhoni in limited-overs cricket, the 'this-is-the-best-we've-got' alibi pops up.
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The question to be asked then is: Do we now have sufficient resources on the back-end? Going by means of leader selector MSK Prasad's newest statement, the answer is a stressful no. "Let me tell you frankly. The boys (earmarked for grooming) are not up to the levels we expect. We'll keep giving them chances in the India A series," Prasad had said while pronouncing the ODI workforce for South Africa last month.
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The subsequent line - after the just about 33-year-olds Patel and Karthik - accommodates mainly Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson. Few doubt the batting possible of these boys however even fewer can vouch for their features behind the stumps. The gadget to spot and groom wicketkeepers is clearly challenged right here.
"There's no one to help wicketkeepers in India," said former India wicketkeeper and leader selector Kiran More. More has been assigned to behavior a once-in-a-year 10-day camp on the National Cricket Academy (NCA) over the last two years.
"That's not enough. You ought to have people assigned to monitor their growth in domestic games. Video footage is available but no one to monitor and help these boys," More informed TOI.
WV Raman and Narendra Hirwani, batting and spin bowling coaches on the NCA, shuttle around the nation all over the Ranji Trophy season.
But nobody helps to keep monitor of the 'keepers. "We even need wicketkeeping coaches who can travel with the team and get the glovemen ready before the first game on an away tour," More advised.
This is the age of the batsman-wicketkeeper and no longer the other way round. The big-money IPL contracts power the children to harness batting as their primary ability. According to another former wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta, Wriddhiman Saha's emergence as an immaculate glovesman, has highlighted the value of the wicketkeeper-batsman.
"The mindset has to change. You can't encourage the idea of 'we are fine till you keep scoring runs'. You need scouts for 'keepers," Dasgupta said as he went on to voice another discomforting observation: "At the moment one comes to know about a wicketkeeper only through the media. Only those who score runs come up as wicketkeeping prospects. People were even talking about KL Rahul keeping wickets for India"
Pant, for example, was blooded into the Indian T20squad at the foundation of his dominating run with the bat within the Ranji Trophy last season. As his form dipped at the A' excursions, he fell off the radar and his inconsistency with the bat become the being worried issue for the selectors and the fans of the sport. Few communicate to him concerning the improvements required in his wicketkeeping skill-set. "Somebody needs to question the process. Why somebody like a Pant or Samson is taking time?" Vijay Dahiya, former India stumper, reckoned. "Once you are branded as an OK wicketkeeper and a good batsman for T20s and ODIs, it becomes difficult to come out of it," Dahiya talks concerning the stereotypes a modern-day wicketkeeper in India has to take care of. This disease has now turn out to be chronic with Saha's unexpected damage in South Africa opening up the talk.
More dared to take a look at out Dhoni, Patel and Karthik all over his tenure as a main selector. And none of them got here with an excessive amount of popularity and experience of 'retaining in top quality cricket. "The selectors could have sent someone young as an understudy in the first place. But I do feel they were not wrong in naming Karthik because you need experience at this point of the series," he said.
While the BCCI can revisit its programme for wicketkeepers, More desires a solution this present day for the senior workforce. "You need a specialized wicketkeeping coach in the team. They are left all to themselves abroad."
ALSO READ: Saha breaks Dhoni's report of maximum dismissals by means of an Indian wicketkeeper in a Test
The question to be asked then is: Do we now have sufficient resources on the back-end? Going by means of leader selector MSK Prasad's newest statement, the answer is a stressful no. "Let me tell you frankly. The boys (earmarked for grooming) are not up to the levels we expect. We'll keep giving them chances in the India A series," Prasad had said while pronouncing the ODI workforce for South Africa last month.
ALSO READ: Dinesh Karthik to switch injured Wriddhiman Saha
The subsequent line - after the just about 33-year-olds Patel and Karthik - accommodates mainly Rishabh Pant, Ishan Kishan and Sanju Samson. Few doubt the batting possible of these boys however even fewer can vouch for their features behind the stumps. The gadget to spot and groom wicketkeepers is clearly challenged right here.
"There's no one to help wicketkeepers in India," said former India wicketkeeper and leader selector Kiran More. More has been assigned to behavior a once-in-a-year 10-day camp on the National Cricket Academy (NCA) over the last two years.
"That's not enough. You ought to have people assigned to monitor their growth in domestic games. Video footage is available but no one to monitor and help these boys," More informed TOI.
WV Raman and Narendra Hirwani, batting and spin bowling coaches on the NCA, shuttle around the nation all over the Ranji Trophy season.
But nobody helps to keep monitor of the 'keepers. "We even need wicketkeeping coaches who can travel with the team and get the glovemen ready before the first game on an away tour," More advised.
This is the age of the batsman-wicketkeeper and no longer the other way round. The big-money IPL contracts power the children to harness batting as their primary ability. According to another former wicketkeeper Deep Dasgupta, Wriddhiman Saha's emergence as an immaculate glovesman, has highlighted the value of the wicketkeeper-batsman.
"The mindset has to change. You can't encourage the idea of 'we are fine till you keep scoring runs'. You need scouts for 'keepers," Dasgupta said as he went on to voice another discomforting observation: "At the moment one comes to know about a wicketkeeper only through the media. Only those who score runs come up as wicketkeeping prospects. People were even talking about KL Rahul keeping wickets for India"
Pant, for example, was blooded into the Indian T20squad at the foundation of his dominating run with the bat within the Ranji Trophy last season. As his form dipped at the A' excursions, he fell off the radar and his inconsistency with the bat become the being worried issue for the selectors and the fans of the sport. Few communicate to him concerning the improvements required in his wicketkeeping skill-set. "Somebody needs to question the process. Why somebody like a Pant or Samson is taking time?" Vijay Dahiya, former India stumper, reckoned. "Once you are branded as an OK wicketkeeper and a good batsman for T20s and ODIs, it becomes difficult to come out of it," Dahiya talks concerning the stereotypes a modern-day wicketkeeper in India has to take care of. This disease has now turn out to be chronic with Saha's unexpected damage in South Africa opening up the talk.
More dared to take a look at out Dhoni, Patel and Karthik all over his tenure as a main selector. And none of them got here with an excessive amount of popularity and experience of 'retaining in top quality cricket. "The selectors could have sent someone young as an understudy in the first place. But I do feel they were not wrong in naming Karthik because you need experience at this point of the series," he said.
While the BCCI can revisit its programme for wicketkeepers, More desires a solution this present day for the senior workforce. "You need a specialized wicketkeeping coach in the team. They are left all to themselves abroad."
Lack of India's wicketkeeping resources ring alarm bells
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