Former India player Mohammad Kaif slammed the India team management for the inconsistency in selection in the West Indies home series. However, India won the three-match ODI series 2-1, and the action will now shift to the T20Is.
Despite the series win, Kaif commented on some glaring issues and called the management out.

“You are bringing new guys but not backing them. If you have played someone, give more chances. Why did they drop Nabi? Kamboj also got hit anyway. You are spoiling young players by doing this. I don’t know when Nabi will play white-ball next. Maybe he won’t play at all. This is wrong. You do not have backups. If this planning continues, it is going to hurt,” he said in a video on his YouTube channel.

“He has less experience and is a work in progress. He is still learning as a captain and getting into that role. The biggest thing hurting him is that he is a young captain with a young bowling team. There is less time for the World Cup and it is seen that he is panicking. You played Nabi in one game and dropped him. You gave Reddy the new ball in one game and then changed that. Then you played Kamboj. They lost because they also had the penalty and had to bring fielders in. Because he was clueless when so many runs were being scored and was taking time,” he further added.

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Despite India winning the series, Mohammad Kaif said that there was nothing to take away and that there were no new
positives. While Rohit Sharma, Virat Kohli, KL Rahul, and Gill scored centuries, he added that it was nothing new. He stated that India failed to find answers to their weakness at the moment, which is the bowling attack.

“I think the takeaways from this series were not hundreds from Kohli, Rohit, Gill and KL. They have been doing this. We did not add on anything. When you play a series, you try to add on and improve on your weakness. Kuldeep picked wickets but he was not playing enough before anyway. Nothing was added on from this series. In fact, it has only hurt. The confidence has gone down. Gill, as a captain, may be doubting himself. It’s like the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. There was no positive added,” he explained.

“I feel two-three things have been done wrong. If you look at the selection committee, there are many bowlers there. They have a huge role to play. Even they are not able to connect to Shami. I am sure they also would have gone through such phases, be it fitness, rhythm. Ajit Agarkar himself made a comeback so many times. This is the norm of a career,” he concluded.