Indian cricket captain Virat Kohli has come forward and made it clear that IPL performances will have 'no influence' on the World Cup team selection. He claims the speculation a 'very, very radical analysis'. With 12 or 13 slots almost locked, India is looking to fix the others before the World Cup begins on May 30 in England. Looks like the five ODI against Australia are the decider matches.
At the press conference ahead of the first ODI, the skipper said, "No, I don't see the IPL having any influence on World Cup selection. I think that will be very, very radical sort of analysis. We need to have a solid team. Before we head into the IPL, we need to be absolutely clear of what team we want for the World Cup. I don't see anything changing on how the IPL goes for any of the players."
To make sure they get the right players, Kohli said, "We will have to think about the combinations. I don't think playing a bowler less is a good idea because with the extra fielder in till the 40th over, it becomes very difficult to sort of get a few guys to chip in with a few over here and there. We will have to work out the batting combination to try and give game-time to the guys we want to. But I don't see the balling combination changing."
On discussing the T20 International series with Australia, Kohli confessed that India couldn't win it as Australia were a better side. He said, "We could not win the T20 series because in the first match, we didn't play good cricket and in the second match, Australia played better than us. From outside, it's easy to say, they don't have the heart to play. We always want to win games for India. If we only had to experiment, we would have got out for 50 as everybody would have gotten out trying to hit sixes. If you see it negative, you'll only be able to extract negative things but if you look at it positively, you'll be able to take positive things."
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