5 reasons why India should have a specialist T20I side

#4 Managing the extra workload

Virat Kolhi and other senior members of the Indian team have been on a constant grind

With the amount of international cricket being played nowadays, managing the workload is the biggest challenge that players face today. It is true that players today are fitter and hungrier than ever before but that does not take away the pressure that their bodies have to take in.

One successful mantra to manage the workload is of course to use a rotational policy where players get rested. In a long season, a long-term injury to one of the star players – as what happened to Rohit Sharma last year – can be too costly for a team.

The problem with going in with the same team for every format of the game is that it kills the possibility of rotation. The likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Virat Kohli and now Hardik Pandya play in all three formats for India.

With so much of cricket being played, when the same players feature in T20Is after a long series, there is often an unmistakable tendency to take the format too lightly and not give it the seriousness it deserves.

This becomes a problem because though very T20Is are played in a bilateral series, each of these are the part of a process towards building a team for an ICC T20I event. It therefore becomes imperative that the rotation policy is adopted and more T20I specialists are nurtured.