The Indian team will next month play a 2-match Test match against Sri Lanka on its soil. The Indian team will be selected by Tuesday (July 28) for the series, which will begin on August 15. But this meeting will not be enough for team selection only. BCCI will also organize a review meeting in early August. In this meeting, the performance of the Indian team on the tour of Ireland, England and Zimbabwe will be reviewed. A major decision is also likely to be taken regarding the support staff of head coach Gautam Gambhir in the review meeting.
India will play a 2 test match series during the tour of Sri Lanka
BCCI Secretary Devjit Saikia said during an interview that, ‘The team will be selected for the Sri Lanka tour in the next 2 days. The team will be announced by Tuesday.’ The first match of the 2-match Test series between India and Sri Lanka will be played in Galle from August 15 to 19. While the second Test will be played from August 23 to 27 at the Sinhalese Sports Club in Colombo. Indian batsmen will be severely tested on the spin friendly pitches of Sri Lanka. Indian batsmen have often struggled on foreign soil in recent years. In such a case, this series is considered a big challenge for the players.
Not only the defeat but also the reasons for it will be discussed in detail
BCCI will hold a review meeting in the first week of August after the team selection. In this meeting there will be a detailed discussion on the complete report of the recent foreign trip. Under the captaincy of Shreyas Iyer, India first faced a 0-2 defeat in the T20 series against Ireland. After which England swept India 4-0 in the 5-match T20 series. Apart from this, under the leadership of Shubman Gill, India also lost the ODI series against England by 1-2. However, the team won the first match on the ongoing Zimbabwe tour.
Devjit Saikia said that the review meeting will not be based only on the result. But the reasons for the defeat will be discussed in detail. He said, ‘A review meeting will be held at the beginning of August. A review will be held after the team returns from the Zimbabwe tour. What went wrong in England, in which areas the team fell behind and what needs to be improved further, will be discussed in detail.’
Fielding and assistant coach cards will be cut?
This meeting is also considered important, because in the current tours, the batting, bowling and fielding of the Indian team have not performed as expected. Assistant coach Ryan Ten Doschet and fielding coach T. Dileep’s current white ball contract of 2 years has come to an end. The BCCI will now review his performance and only then decide whether to extend his contract further or not. T. It was Dileep who started the practice of awarding medals to the next best fielder in every match in the team.
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