The call-ups were expected as the selectors need to find solutions for the middle-order malaise that put paid to the World Cup dream. So remarked Virat Kohli after the World Cup warm-up game against Bangladesh, in which he had scored a hundred at No. Chief selector MSK Prasad implied as much, when he said: “We had a certain roadmap and plans till the World Cup. Their misdiagnosiswas brutally exposed in the World Cup, despite a precursor in the 2017 Champions Trophy. So effectively, for all these cosmetic changes, the body could remain much the same as one saw in the World Cup.

Source: Indian Express July 21, 2019 19:18 UTC