Why does Indian cricket go for experience over skill?

[SteveWaugh]

Take Parthiv Patel. Why not go for Rishabh Pant, simply as Pant clearly has the higher skill level at this point in time? The only major reason Parthiv has been selected is 'experience'.

In Australia, they unearthed Gilchrist, not some other old wicketkeeper. Similarly, why Ishant and Umesh? Why not Navdeep Saini?

The answer? Experience!!!

 

[Black_Warrior]

They definitely should have gone for Pant and we would get to see Lungi against Pant

 

[the big bambino]

I’d pick Pant to cover Bumrah.

 

[Daemon]

Yeah but Pant would be holding back Hardik

 

[the big bambino]

Always handy having someone who can cover two roles

 

[cnerd123]

I'd love it if we had our own De Kock, but I'm not sure we're going to find it in Pant. Not every exciting youngster can be a Hardik and immediately fulfill our needs. Sometimes you go looking for De Kock and get PartHIV instead.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Gilchrist was like 30 when they picked him wasn't he?

 

[Victor Ian]

I'd love it if we had our own De Kock, but I'm not sure we're going to find it in Pant. Not every exciting youngster can be a Hardik and immediately fulfill our needs. Sometimes you go looking for De Kock and get PartHIV instead.

surely you could have fit Cummins in there somewhere. Will we get to see DeCock caught Cummins in the next series?

 

[TheJediBrah]

surely you could have fit Cummins in there somewhere. Will we get to see DeCock caught Cummins in the next series?

With a bit of pace and bounce in the pitch we could see Cummins all over de Kock

 

[mr_mister]

listen tugga dont stir up controversy