India vs Sri Lanka 2017: 5 reasons why India should have experimented

Virat Kohli Ravi Shastri
The real test will begin after the Sri Lanka series

#2 Much-needed rest for the senior players

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Senior players need time to rest

Owing to the taxing schedule of International cricket, many Indian players play incessantly without any breaks, and this can only ignite the chances of them going off the boil before any crunch series.

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A pivotal stage in Indian cricket is coming up next year with all the overseas tours lined up, and the selectors could have trodden carefully by resting many of the senior players and keeping them fresh for sterner tests in alien conditions.

Also, this rest would have allowed these players to iron out flaws which might have crept into their game, something which would only help them next season.

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