One thing I notice from the Indian line-ups for the ODI series is how much of a second or even third or fourth XI it is. This really is the death of international cricket by stealth. For today's (3rd) game there literally isn't a single player who would get into India's first-choice XI in the format, and probably only four or five others who would be anywhere near it.
Meanwhile England and West Indies are playing a T20 series where England have rested a couple of their first-choice players six months before a World Cup in the same country, and Bangladesh (who've done without four or five or their big names for most or all of the last month) are playing a New Zealand 2nd XI...
One thing I notice from the Indian line-ups for the ODI series is how much of a second or even third or fourth XI it is. This really is the death of international cricket by stealth. For today's (3rd) game there literally isn't a single player who would get into India's first-choice XI in the format, and probably only four or five others who would be anywhere near it.
Meanwhile England and West Indies are playing a T20 series where England have rested a couple of their first-choice players six months before a World Cup in the same country, and Bangladesh (who've done without four or five or their big names for most or all of the last month) are playing a New Zealand 2nd XI...