India vs West Indies: 5 wrong signals team India gave with the Rohit Sharma obsession

#4 Scapegoats for Kingston draw

Mishra was left out of the last test match

By dropping Umesh Yadav, Amit Mishra and Cheteshwar Pujara, the team management indirectly blamed the above three for their inability to win the second test, at Kingston. Virat Kohli's praise about Rohit Sharma's 'game changing' ability seemed like an indirect dig at Pujara's slow batting strike rate.

Test cricket, I was told is all about grit determination and not giving your wicket. The Kohli-Kumble team management are maybe changing all those theories.

For the record, Amit Mishra scored 53 and 21 in both test innings' and took 6 wickets in total. Yadav took 5 wickets in the first test and went wicketless in the second test.

It, maybe, worthwhile to note, the young Caribbean middle order played out of their skins to draw the second test. It took number 5, 6, 7, and 8 to score fifties (has happened just four times before in test cricket) to get that result. The bowlers put on their best show but lost to a better opponent.