It’s a viciously self-fulfilling prophecy: the more you think they can’t do it, they won’t be able to do it. If the team management was sceptical of his fitness, he should have been best left to play Ranji Trophy. In fact, the way the Indian team management has handled Bhuvneshwar is a case study in itself. After Bhuvneshwar recovered from a lower-back injury he aggravated in the ODI series in England, he played the Asia Cup. It’s equally baffling that the lack of four-day practice bothers a team management that prefers net sessions over warm-up matches.

Source: Indian Express December 18, 2018 19:31 UTC