Former India bowling coach Bharat Arun asked for patience when it comes to the team management and selectors’ bowling transition plans before the all-important tour against New Zealand. As many as four pace bowlers have recently made their debuts, while there is also an experienced group ready, but they have had to be rotated due to workload management and the fixture as well.
“Well, I really don’t know what’s happening behind closed doors in the selection committee and the team management. I think they must be having some plans in place. If they are trying out so many bowlers, they want to find out who is the one who’s going to be, who’s going to suit according to the team’s plans. So, I would like to wait and watch rather than making a comment on that,” Bharat Arun said in a select media interaction organised by Sony Sports Network.
“If you look at the overall Indian pace attack, it looks pretty healthy to me. It is just a question of the combination. When one bowler comes into the team, somebody experienced like Bumrah walks into the team, the whole bowling attack looks totally different. So, I think when they are trying out. Yes, it’s okay for a bowler to be hit. In sport, you are allowed to fail. But the failure, to me, is an investment to tell me how to reinvent myself. So if that is going to be the case, if the bowler is going to understand where he stands, and if he’s going to reinvent himself, I think that is great preparation for the big event. And I hope the team management is doing just that,” he further added.
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However, a major part of Team India’s bowling transition strategy happened to drop veteran Mohammad Shami and depend on emerging bowlers. Bharat Arun also believes Mohammad Shami has done a lot across formats and does not need to prove anything now as well.
“To answer what Shami should be doing, I don’t think Shami needs to prove himself. You either pick him on form or you don’t. Mohammed Shami does not need to prove that ‘I can do this to be picked into the Indian team’. He’s proved enough across all formats,” he concluded.
