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India has lacked this kind of flexibility in their line-ups over the past decade and that has resulted in them playing timid cricket on the day that matters. It seems as if the think-tank is
scared to invest in multi-purpose players for fear of being criticised. You saw that with England since 2015 they invested in multi-purpose players across white ball formats. They got
mocked for banking on them during the recent World Cup, but they are never going to move away from it. In India it seems that the think-tank sometimes believes if they move away from the
specialists they will fail. Well for 10 years the specialists have not delivered and now it is time to look beyond them. Let us not make it a special event that nine of the XI bowled against
the Netherlands in the final league match. Skipper Sharma lacked that additional option or someone with a golden arm beyond the five specialists on Sunday. We in India have forgotten that
India’s greatest ODI sides from 1983-1987 had depth in batting and bowling with several all-rounders in the mix. Then even the 2011 World Cup winning side had a lot of depth allowing skipper
Mahendra Singh Dhoni to mix and match. India’s skippers since the 2013 Champions Trophy triumph have not had that flexibility in white ball cricket and that is the reason why the cupboard
is bare. So back to Dravid and the sun which indeed did come up at the appointed time. But it would indeed have been even more special knowing that India is on the top of the World.