Indian opener Shikhar Dhawan has shared his take on rest being given to Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma by the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) within the latest previous.
Notably, Kohli and Rohit took a rest from a number of worldwide matches this 12 months regardless of each have had struggled to present consistency with the bat.
The duo has missed the house T20I collection in opposition to South Africa proper after the conclusion of Indian Premier League (IPL) 2022. Then, following the profitable limited-overs battle in opposition to England, Kohli was rested for the excursions of the West Indies and Zimbabwe.
On the opposite hand, Rohit returned to lead India in T20Is after lacking the ODI leg in opposition to West Indies. But the India captain has additionally been rested for the Zimbabwe collection.
In the absence of Rohit, Dhawan, who led India’s ODI facet in opposition to West Indies, will once more don the captain’s hat. Speaking on the red-hot matter of resting Kohli in addition to Rohit, Dhawan got here to the defence of gamers taking rest, saying if a cricketer performs back-to-back he’ll get ‘mentally tired’.
“A player has to get fresh to give peak performance. If a player plays back-to-back, he will get mentally tired. It is important to give rest mentally. If you see there is rotation in international cricket so that players get rest,” Dhawan instructed India Today.
“If a player travels everywhere, he will get tired. At the end of the day, a cricketer is a human. I feel people at the top level understand and accordingly plan to keep a nice balance,” Dhawan added.