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If you hear the word rotation, maybe your head works first with football. In this era of European football where every league game becomes the winner of the title, the knockout stages of the Champions League come to the fore and most footballers have to play three or four matches for the national team. In order to avoid injury to players from these entanglements or to make them more exhausted, most coaches arrange for them to rest by not playing game after game or taking them off the field before the end of the 90 minutes. . This is commonly called a turnover policy. And nowadays where the big teams have to play games over fifty it is a very normal and conventional system.
Now it can’t be done in football. Since substitution is possible there and a team plays many more games in a year. But no one could have imagined that it could be done in cricket. At least not for that long. But with the recent tour of Sri Lanka and India in front of them where they have to spend four months on the subcontinent, the England Cricket Board has put in place a rotation policy to keep players away from this exhaustion. England has already had some players shake hands to see alternate cricketers on their hands at the 11th-ranked cue ball cricket. But this time they are moving in a completely different direction and for the first time in red ball cricket. England’s success is also seen on the reverse of the coin. But cricket fans couldn’t help but admire his plan.
Everything has stopped since the Corona attack. Each visiting team must be quarantined for the first 7-14 days. They were then caught in the middle of a biosecurity bubble. Where no one can come from outside, no one can get out of this bubble. Everyone now understands how exhausted they are after being stuck in one place for so long. Now let’s take a look at this year’s matches in England.
The first two series of this year in England were away. The first is two tests in Sri Lanka and the next is a complete series of four tests, five T20 and three ODI in India. Before each away series, teams had to leave the country one month in advance to comply with curved restrictions. The English players did not return to the country as the series was played in two countries at the same time. So, with just these two series, they have to spend roughly three and a half months away from the country and their loved ones and play a total of twelve games, including seven Tests, three ODIs and five T20s. Apart from that, England will have to play a total of 17 tests, 16 ODI and at least 20 T20I matches this year. If we consider the timing of the upcoming Sri Lanka tour, Kovid also spends his busy time there where he plays 6 Tests, six ODI and nine T20I matches between July and December. Once again, many players from the England team played in the IPL last year in the United Arab Emirates and this year many will play in the IPL. I know that many people like me may be tired of reading this. Then imagine the physical and mental anguish of the players. There are doubts about the extent to which players could do their best under this pressure. And with this in mind, the England Cricket Board made a plan.
They divided the six tests of the India and Sri Lanka tour into three blocks. Two tests with Sri Lanka, the first two tests with India and the last two tests in Ahmedabad. In each of these blocks some players rest. Those who play for England in all three formats predominate when it comes to rest. Because Ben Stokes and Zafra Archer rested in the first block, that is, two tests with Sri Lanka. Johnny Bairstow, Sam Curran and Mark Wood got this break in the second block. They were replaced by Ben Stokes, Oli Pope and Zafra Archer. Rory Burns also rested for both tests with starter Jack Crowley rested. Crowley replaced Burns in the next two Tests. Again, Zafar Archer was not played in the second and fourth Tests. Moin Ali was fired for the second test and returned home. Butler played the first three of these six tryouts as a goalie-hitter and the last three were concentrated. And the most interesting thing was that only one of these six events was played by Stuart Broad and Jimmy Anderson, two experienced English bowling captains. In the third test in Ahmedabad. Although this is nothing new. Due to age, the body is no longer as tolerant as before and the two best Test bowlers of the current generation are no longer willing to show themselves the luxury of not playing together, so the two are played at rest. That is why in the last two years, only two out of ten tests have been found together. So only five people played in four Tests against India. If two Trials are played against Sri Lanka, the six Trials are played by a total of three. Dom Sibley, Joe Root and Jack Leach.
But it is not that they are doing this with red ball cricket in mind. They also have cue ball cricket very well on their heads. This year’s T20 World Cup in India. So none of the five T20s, three ODIs and the IPL with India can exclude their regular players from the cue ball. So that they can bring the best preparation. That is why Archer has only played two Tests, Wood and Caryan have not played in Tests against India and Stokes and Bairstow have rested. Root is not part of his T20 team, so he has only played in six Trials. The remainder is expected to come in the ODI against India. And the way things are going, it would not be surprising if both Stokes and Bairstow did not play New Zealand in the two home events in May.
Now it is both your gain and your loss. Players like Dan Lawrence, Oli Pope Ben Fox are increasing the depth of their roster and Bairstow, on the flip side of the coin, is doing a great job in Sri Lanka to lose momentum against India and ruin momentum. It is feared that he is not the only victim. But their head coach, Ed Smith, has said England are about to usher in a new era in their quest to “modernize” touring.
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