India's focus also on transition
Kolkata, Sept. 10 -- India are reigning World T20 champions but it will count for little at the Asia Cup because the core of the current squad is fundamentally different from the one that beat South Africa at Bridgetown last June.
No Rohit Sharma, no Virat Kohli, no Rishabh Pant, no Ravindra Jadeja, and strategically India have decided to embrace a riskier approach where they rely on their batting depth to go hammer and tongs all the way.
It automatically puts greater impetus on the allrounders, making the Asia Cup an ideal tournament to go through every permutation and combination before the T20 World Cup at home next year.
It doesn't in any way undermine the need to win the Asia Cup too, because there is simply no better habit than winnin...
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