Delhi: India’s avoiding defeat in the Old Trafford Test was nothing short of a ‘victory’. In such a result, deficiencies and mistakes are usually hidden. Even then, the performance of the bowlers and especially his first Test, Anshul Kamboj, was with many questions. Prior to this Test, taking them in the Test team, the team was more compulsion than the reward of performance in domestic cricket.

When he impressed in matches against England Lions, he did not keep him with the senior team to ‘Groom’, but when the injury list was long before the Old Trafford Test, he called. There is no doubt that 24 -year -old Anshul is a talented name in the bench strength of fast bowling in India, but the way he was completely out of India, was it right, was it right?

There is a lot of example when giving the player a chance to make a test debut at a wrong stage, instead of becoming a memorable place of his career, becomes a bit of injustice for him. The same happened to Anshul and during England’s only innings, no bowler also did his profile better, but Anshul was absolutely helpless or say that he was not ready to play the Test. This caused the team’s attack to get upset. The fast bowler who played his first Test in his body language was neither enthusiasm nor boom. For English batsmen, he was no more than a simple bowler of a county match.

The result was that Anshul threw 18 overs out of 157.1 overs. On him, Shubman Gill gave him the duty of a new ball, increased the pressure of hope on him. Years later, a team against India became 600 and with such a role in it, which bowler would like to remember 1-89 debut performance? The same thing happened to Pankaj Singh in 2014. Similarly, in 2011, RP Singh suddenly called to play. Such an experiment did not do good to the team and ended the career of these bowlers. For whom did such a debut prove to be profitable? Why would you like to remember it? Team management should have realized so much what they are doing? In this affair, during these 18 overs, the speed of Anshul’s ball continued to decrease.

The disadvantage for the team was that the attack did not get the better balance. The support that the second end was needed for Bumrah was not found. The desire of team management to feed the Anshul was lost. The experiment done with Kamboj is also a warning for the future that if such a situation is made ahead, what to do? If no ready bowler is found for the Emergency, then what is the use of such a big convoy?