Mohammed Siraj has “debunked forever this business of workload”, stated India batting nice Sunil Gavaskar, questioning the idea by asserting that enjoying for the nation ought to be sufficient to “forget the aches”, one thing that troopers guarding the nation are doing routinely.
Siraj performed all 5 Tests of the just-concluded drawn sequence in opposition to England and bowled 185.3 overs in whole, selecting up 23 wickets in all. However, tempo spearhead Jasprit Bumrah was obtainable for under three of the video games, skipping the must-win fifth Test at The Oval as a part of his workload management.
Gavaskar, nevertheless, made it clear that his criticism was not directed at Bumrah, saying that his was a case of “injury management” greater than the rest.
“When you are playing for your country, forget the aches and the pains. On the border, do you think that the jawans are complaining about cold? What did Rishabh Pant show you? He came out to bat with a fracture. That is what you expect from the players. Playing cricket for India is an honour,” Gavaskar instructed ‘India Today’.
“You are representing 140 crore people and that is what we saw in Mohammed Siraj. I think Siraj bowled his heart out, and he debunked forever this business of workload.
“For 5 Test matches, continuous he has bowled 7-8 over spells, as a result of the captain wished him and the nation anticipated of him,” added the former skipper.
The 76-year-old said workload management cannot come in the way of fielding the best available team.
“If you will succumb to people who find themselves speaking about workload, then you might be by no means going to have your finest gamers on the sector to your nation,” he said.
“I hope that the phrase ‘workload’ goes out of the Indian cricket dictionary. I’ve been saying that for a very long time… And I suppose that’s the one factor that all of us ought to remember the fact that this workload is barely a psychological factor, not a lot a bodily factor,” he added.
