Stephen Fleming, former head coach of the Chennai Super Kings (CSK), opined that the Indian team management made the right call to drop Vaibhav Sooryavanshi for Ishan Kishan in the fourth T20I match against New Zealand in Auckland.
After the 87-run defeat against New Zealand, there are arguments that the result of the match could be different if India did not drop Vaibhav Sooryavanshi from the playing eleven. But Fleming, who had a long association with Indian cricket through the Indian Premier League (IPL), extended his support to the team management of the Indian National Cricket Team.
Vaibhav Sooryavanshi played the previous couple of matches in the ongoing 5-match T20I series in the absence of Ishan Kishan. As Ishan was injured, the Gautam Gambhir-led management first placed Sooryavanshi in the No.3 batting slot in the second game, and then for the third match, they promoted the 15-year-old to the opening position.
In the second game, Sooryavanshi was dismissed after scoring only 4 runs, but in the following game, he gifted the team an explosive 45-run knock in Wellington. With the young opener, Team India won both of the matches.
Uncertainty over players since the emergence of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Whether to play Vaibhav Sooryavanshi in consecutive matches at the highest level of cricket remains a debate. While some wants to see him playing on regular basis, some other haved showed concerns over the future of some of the experienced cricketers of the team.
Since the emergence of Sooryavanshi, the management has dropped Sanju Samson multiple times from the team. There is no debate about the fact that to confirm the best possible results from every match, and mainly in the ICC events, the team needs to secure a set group of players.
Stephen Fleming supports the snub of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi
Highlighting the importance of a set group of players, the former CSK head coach mentioned that by dropping Sooryavanshi from the playing XI, soon after Ishan Kishan's fitness clearance, the Indian team management has made their stand clear. Stephen Fleming expressed that players will feel free to offer their best to the team if the management shows their full support to them.
"His time will come; he will be that person, that incumbent. But I think it's a great message because it's a really inconsistent game. You're asking players to go out there and play at a really high level of skill and risk, and if they feel that they're compromised and they start double-guessing because their place is under threat, then they don't have that freedom to go out and play right on the edge of their skill level, right on the edge of the limits," Stephen Fleming said on the Sony Sports Network.
Despite today's heavy defeat, the Shreyas Iyer-led team has already won the series, with one more match to be played, as they have claimed wins in the first three matches of the series.
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