In T20, by the time you realize the stature of the player, the game is over lol..Best thing eng did back then was to get rid of Cook and co in limited overs despite their "stature"..they were years behind in limited overs cricket and see where they are now...even though eng lost odis by 2-1, the way they played, they can replicate success easily as everyone contributed in every game unlike ind which won due to some individual outstanding performances, which is not an easy model to replicate..
Just looking at the IPL last season, seven of the top ten run scorers were Indian: three were at least thirty years old Dhawan (30), Vijay (32), and Gambhir (34); and the other four were Kohli (27), Rahane (28), Sharma (28), and Raina (29). If you look at positions 11-20 on the run scorers list, there was Karun Nair (24), Lokesh Rahul (24 - currently in the t20 team), and Sanju Samson (21); and in positions 21-30 there was Krunal Pandya (25) and Manish Pandey (26 - currently in the t20 team). So in last year's IPL only nine of the top thirty run scorers were Indian and under 30 years old at the time.
Compare that to the Natwest t20 blast. Five of the top ten run scorers were English and under thirty years old (Cockbain, Roy, Duckett, Cobb, Northeast). In positions 11-20 on the run scorers list there was Lloyd, Bell-Drummond, Hain, Malan, Stoneman, and D'Oliveira; and in positions 21-30 there was Jennings, Kohler-Cadmore, Rossington, Lyth and Dawson. So out of the top thirty run scorers in last season's t20 tournament, 16 were English and under thirty years old. Some of them are currently in the England one day setup and others are on the fringes of the England one day setup or involved in the Lions. That's one of the big differences between the IPL and our t20 tournament, in our t20 tournament you often see more young talent emerge and take centre stage, whereas in the IPL it tends to be the big name players that take centre stage. Does having more young players on the top run scorers list make England's talent pool better than India's? Not necessarily, but it certainly gives England a fairly deep pool of young talent to choose from in their one day set up. That's big reason why the selectors have the desire and willingness to give these exciting young players an opportunity to play on the international stage because they are generally scoring the most runs in their domestic t20 tournament.
As for India, perhaps they should turn to Nair or Samson in their batting line up rather than Yuvraj, and consider finding a new keeper to take the gloves off Dhoni. But in India's defence, they have started to blood in younger players: Rahul (24), Pandey (27), Pandya (23), Rasool (27), Bumrah (23), and Chahal (26) - that's six players that have made their debut within the last two years. Kohli is still only 28 years old. An argument can be made that today they were let down by their experienced batsmen not converting their starts to big runs, but that can happen in any match, and I wouldn't expect India to fall flat again on Sunday.
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