‘MS Dhoni had a young team’ – Former Pakistan spinner wants Pakistan to take inspiration from MS Dhoni while building their team

Former Pakistan wrist spinner Danish Kaneria feels India are a lot more clear than Pakistan while building their teams for different formats. He credited the Indian selectors to give Hardik Pandya a go to lead the team in the shortest format looking beyond Rohit Sharma and Virat Kohli.

Kaneria feels Pakistan have some players in their team across formats whom they’re carrying. He also opined that they need to take tough calls if they want to dominate international cricket.

“India have made it clear that Hardik Pandya will look after the T20I team as they move in a new direction without Rohit and Kohli. But here we are sticking to Babar Azam across formats and not changing our teams at all. This is because the players are afraid to get dropped. Once the fear creeps in, the team starts getting on the decline. You will need to take tough calls if you want to make a competitive team,” said in a video on his Youtube Channel.

Danish Kaneria further stated how MS Dhoni made his vision clear when he became the permanent Indian captain. Dhoni wanted young players in his squad so that India would become the best fielding side in the world.

“MS Dhoni had a young team in the 20-20 World Cup and he won with a good fielding side. He has made it clear later that instead of seniors, he wanted players who may score just 15-20 with bat but also stop 15-20 runs in the field. This is the thinking that you need, but we don’t learn. We are going backwards and shielding our senior players,” he added.

India played fearless cricket: Danish Kaneria

Danish Kaneria also hailed youngsters like Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan for making India’s chase of 109 runs easy against New Zealand in the second ODI.

“India played fearless cricket and batters like Shubman Gill and Ishan Kishan backed their natural game with just 109 to get. They finished the game in 20 overs, not like us who would have stretched the game in a bid to make just personal runs. You need to put the opposition under pressure and that’s exactly what India did,” he further stated.