"Emphasis on IPL and limited-over games has affected India's performance," says http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Imran-Khan-c64237 - Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Pakistan-c755’s cricket legend, Imran Khan, feels that the Indian team’s emphasis on the shorter formats of the sport have affected their performance, especially due to their over-commitments with the cash-rich Indian Premier League (IPL).
Khan, who is now an eminent Pakistani politician, also stated it was due to the team’s preference for the Twenty20 (T20) outfit that resulted in India’s humiliating whitewash across all formats of the game during their recently concluded tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/England-c56013.
“Emphasis on IPL and limited-over games has affected India's performance. One must realise that the ultimate test is the Test matches in which you have to take 20 wickets. And when your bowlers are not performing, your batting also gets affected,” http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Khan-c71319 stated
while speaking to the Indian Journalists Association on Thursday.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/India-c750 kicked off their tour to England with a defeat at the opening Test series, where the Poms marked a clean sweep against the Men in Blue, securing a 4-0 win. However, to the team’s despair, the loss also forced the visitors to hand over their once held,
World Test Champions title to the English.
The team then suffered another loss, at the only Twenty20 (T20) match, which was followed by the eventual crumble in the final, 5-match One Day International (ODI) series, where India lost 3-0.
If the streak of defeats was not enough, the unfortunate http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 led Indians saw more misery after the team suffered a spell of injuries, which resulted in the Men in Blue losing 9 of their major players.
As a result, the team was slammed by their nation’s former cricket experts, who like Khan, blamed the side for concentrating more on the IPL and other shorter formats.
As for Khan, the former all-rounder, who led Pakistan to its only World Cup win, further added, “A great Test team will always win one-day matches but good one-day team will not necessarily win Test matches. You have to take 20 wickets to win Test matches.
If you have one-day type bowlers they are not going to get Test wickets”.
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