The way you are criticizing and mocking a budding player and an important player (considering his role!) isn't sensible either! Even Lance Klusener took 3 years to create the magic he did and didn't last longer after that - has just 2 centuries & 19 fifties in ODIs (saying this because you expect pure batsman and pure bowler like performances from alrounders! The definition of alrounder, I guess is different for you! Its better ODI is played for just 40 overs and only 4 bowlers bowl 10 overs so that 5th bowler don't come to equation at all! There is a reason why they have 7th batsman/5th bowler quotient in cricket to spice up things and its difficult to fit a player in that role!) A seasoned alrounder like Jacques Kallis couldn't contribute like Lance Klusener in world cups! Even Neil Johnson of Zimbabwe did mini miracle compared to that. Its a rare breed (even for Non-SC teams to produce these type of players and draw effective contributions from them! For e.g., Marcos Stoinis didn't perform even 50% of Pandya in IPL, I know you won't consider/rate performances of players in this league! That's why I asked you why Dhoni is giving so much importance to this league and using it as a tool to keep himself alive?)
But these younger players should not be given any opportunity to showcase their talent, because IPL has to be banned and then Dhoni & co will continue to block the way and don't give them opportunity to even knock the doors (because nobody cares for any other domestic leagues in the country, and usually they will be mocked as flat track bullies or useless cricketers - For e.g., Jadeja who got like thousand triple centuries in Ranji! Anyhow he at least learnt how to bowl & field after being frustrated about his batting!) and suddenly one day they joyfully retire and someone else is thrown into the position who behave like frog thrown into the ocean!
You certainly have not observed the faster growth of players like Bumrah, Kuldeep, Pandya, Pant, Kohli (RCB as player in the earlier editions), etc and what IPL did to them and what other domestic cricket couldn't do to them (with all due respect to Domestic Cricket which made them proper players first up, but it's about the next level - the intermediate level) And its sad to see the negative part of IPL where players like Dhoni have used to extend their career by relishing on weaker teams (weaker players/oppositions). But you are not commenting on that...
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