"Not Necessarily Experiment": Rohit Sharma On Preparing For 2022 T20 World Cup

"Experiment" is the buzz word in any global tournament year but Indian captain Rohit Sharma finds it a tad "over-rated" and he does not want the juniors in the team to feel insecure. With T20 World Cup in Australia scheduled layer this year, Rohit knows that some of the slots, like pace and spin bowling all-rounders still need to be filled and he wants youngsters to get adequate chances. "The word 'experiment' is a little overrated in my terms. We are trying to fill in that gap in our squad, so whatever it takes we will try and do," Rohit said during a virtual media interaction on the eve of the opening T20 against the West Indies.

So is he going to experiment in the lead up to the T20 World Cup, the skipper answered in negative.

"Not necessarily experiment, because all these guys are very young, not played a lot of cricket to keep experimenting with them.

"We need to give them that assurance that game time, once we have that then we can try out. Till then we need to fill those gaps. Whatever it takes, we will do that," the team leader said.

India have a packed white ball calendar in the build up to the T20 World Cup in exactly eight months' time. They next face Sri Lanka in three T20Is which will be followed by a Test series.

"The idea is to identify the players who are going to play the World Cup and give them the game time. There are a lot of players who are injured. Come the World Cup, we don't know who's going to be fit and who's not. "We just want to give the other guys the chance and be ready for that. We have a very packed schedule and injuries are bound to happen.

"So it's important that we give the guys who are going to fill those roles enough game time as well," he said.

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