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Understanding the difference between Red-Ball cricket and White-Ball cricket

Finally, India has learnt that there is a tremendous amount of difference between red-ball cricket and white ball cricket. In red-ball cricket, it is important to make the new ball count. The red-ball moves far more than the white ball, for a much longer period of time. An excellent white ball player can look pretty ordinary while playing red-ball cricket - Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Yuvraj Singh are proofs of that.

This tour has taught the Indians the difference between red-ball and white-ball cricket and how white-ball cricket cannot be counted as a preparation to play the red-ball and also how players shouldn't be picked in red-ball cricket based on their performance with the white-ball.