IND-A tri-series | Competing in 50-over format will prepare India-A players for the rigours of ODI cricket: Joshi

There has been nary extended vacation for the bulk of India’s A team. A week aft a hectic IPL season, the players were connected a formation to Sri Lanka for the tri-series.

And, conscionable a mates of days aft the tourney ends, skipper Tilak Varma and Vaibhav Sooryavanshi volition pitchy disconnected to Ireland and England for different white-ball circuit with India’s elder men’s team.

But the squad absorption is wide successful its thought process — the players request to enactment connected the longer format now, aft respective months of T20 cricket, earlier heading to the United Kingdom.

And, they are besides collaborating with the India-A coaching set-up, which includes Hrishikesh Kanitkar, Sunil Joshi and L. Balaji, each members of the BCCI’s Centre of Excellence.

“We are each pursuing what the elder squad is looking at. The ‘A’ squad is simply a feeder, and we request to guarantee that they get capable crippled time, capable signifier clip and get their skills developed,” Joshi told The Hindu.

There were rainfall interruptions astatine the Rangiri Stadium connected Saturday, but that did not halt India-A from having a agelong session. Tilak and Sooryavanshi spent sizeable clip successful the nets, joined by Priyansh Arya and Prabhsimran Singh.

Joshi, a erstwhile India spinner and ex-national selector, added: “It is important for them to play this longer format, considering that adjacent twelvemonth is the ODI World Cup. And the much they get to play the 50-over format, they volition get utilized to the longer duration of staying successful the middle.

“They volition realise that it’s a 50-over game. It’s nary much a 20-over crippled which is going to decorativeness successful 90 minutes.”

For bowlers, it volition beryllium a antithetic challenge.

“In T20s, determination are lone 4 overs, but present you volition person to vessel aggregate spells [10 overs]. You request to get organised successful presumption of however you’re going to vessel successful the PowerPlay, mediate overs and astatine the death. That’s the connection from the squad management,” Joshi added.