‘Who’s your best XI?’: Ricky Ponting warns India to return to ‘basics’ or risk T20 World Cup exit

NEW DELHI: India indispensable halt overthinking match-ups and urgently instrumentality to selecting their champion XI if they are to support their T20 World Cup run alive, according to erstwhile Australia skipper Ricky Ponting.Go Beyond The Boundary with our YouTube channel. SUBSCRIBE NOW!Following India’s crushing 76-run decision to South Africa successful the Super 8 stage, Ponting issued a blunt appraisal up of their must-win clash against Zimbabwe successful Chennai, urging the squad absorption to simplify their approach.

“Listening to the commentary, the crushed Axar didn't play is due to the fact that of the left-handers successful the absorption side. But there's inactive immoderate right-handers there.

It conscionable comes down to the creation of the skipper of being capable to usage Axar astatine the close time,” Ponting said connected The ICC Review.India’s determination to permission retired Axar Patel raised eyebrows, particularly with rotation expected to play a large relation connected Indian surfaces. Ponting stressed that squad equilibrium indispensable instrumentality precedence implicit tactical match-up theories.“I would beryllium going backmost to the basics. I'd beryllium conscionable looking astatine their lineup. Who's our champion XI for the conditions successful Chennai?” helium said.

Ponting besides threw his enactment down bringing backmost wrist-spinner Kuldeep Yadav, highlighting his quality to occupation each batters careless of match-ups.“If it has Kuldeep Yadav successful it, that's the different 1 that I'd beryllium reasoning astir bringing backmost due to the fact that it doesn't substance with him if it's left-hand oregon right-hand. He tin vessel incorrect ones and rotation the shot distant from the extracurricular edge.”Former India manager Ravi Shastri echoed akin views, insisting that acquisition and bowling extent were captious astatine this stage.“They person to bring him back. You request that experience,” Shastri said of Axar. “What you're missing retired connected is that you're not giving yourself that other enactment of a bowler, which I deliberation is important.”With their semi-final hopes hanging by a thread, India present look a elemental but urgent task — prime their strongest XI and present immediately.