Very difficult to know if a player is in a good or bad space psychologically, some players need to rest because mentally they are overloaded, says Liverpool legend David James
However there was a time when player rotation was not something which was very common. A team's key players were expected to play every big game, every series or tournament. In a sport like cricket, which has as many as three internationally recognised formats, workload management and player rotation is something every team management works on a lot these days.
