The Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) has confirmed that an Indian team will tour Sri Lanka for a short white ball series in July. An office-bearer of the BCCI has endorsed what president Sourav Ganguly indicated on Monday (May 10). "We have planned a white ball series for the senior men's team during the month of July where they will play T20 Internationals and ODIs in Sri Lanka," Ganguly told PTI and the office-bearer confirmed that an Indian team of white ball specialists will play three ODIs and three T20Is in the island nation.
With the likes of Shikhar Dhawan, Prithvi Shaw, Suryakumar Yadav, Ishan Kishan, Hardik Pandya, Krunal Pandya, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Navdeep Saini, Khaleel Ahmed, Yuzvendra Chahal, Kuldeep Yadav, all internationals available, the Indian selectors have sufficient depth to field a strong team for the series in which it can be confirmed that those who would be in England will not take part. There is also some talk that Rahul Dravid and his staff at the National Cricket Academy (NCA) will be asked to accompany the group as coaches. The office-bearer did not rule out that possibility either.
But the move has raised a larger question of two teams playing at two different corners of the world which was first envisaged by James Sutherland, a former CEO of Cricket Australia (CA). "While hosting Tests here, Australia could have its Twenty20 team touring somewhere else. It is difficult not to see a generation of players coming through with an eye to becoming Twenty20 specialists. As more Twenty20 cricket is played there are clearly opportunities for players to choose to be specialists," Sutherland had told the Australian media in 2010. When contacted on Tuesday in the context of the BCCI fielding dual teams, Sutherland said he always saw it coming.
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