New Delhi: Former Indian captain Kris Srikanth has strongly criticized the Indian team’s management of how 15-year-old Vaibhav Sooryavanshi was handled during the T20I tours of Ireland and England.Sooryavanshi did not get a game in the Ireland series and was later included in the playing XI against England later. Sanju Samson fight and run. However, after playing three matches, the youngster was again dropped for the fifth and final T20I. India lost the five-match series 0-4. Srikkanth said he was not happy with the captain Shreyas IyerA description of the change that was introduced before the final T20I.During the tournament, Iyer defended the decision saying: “I feel that this is the time when we have to try what is best for us as a team. So based on this, we have chosen this. “The statement did not go down well with Srikkanth.“I was very disappointed with the interview after the throw,” Srikkanth said on his YouTube channel.He questioned the team’s treatment of young players and said the same standards should apply to all those who are setting up.“The talk is not that. The way you treat your players, the way you build a young team is important. If this is the way forward, the way forward is to change and everyone (the leadership team) said we want to take a better way. Gautam Gambhirthe same standard should apply to the captain. You say the players don’t play, how did you do it?”Sooryavanshi was brought into the squad after Sanju Samson, the Player of the Tournament at this year’s T20 World Cup, failed to score three times in a row. The youngster managed 14th in Manchester, 13th in Nottingham and 15th in Bristol, before being dropped in the final.Srikkanth asked what the youth had done wrong.“What did Vaibhav Sooryavanshi do wrong? Is that how you groom young players?”The former India all-rounder compared the incident to his experience as a captain when he worked with a 16-year-old boy. Sachin Tendulkar making his international debut in the 1989 tour of Pakistan.He said supporting young players is important to build self-confidence.“Shreyas Iyer said by throwing ‘we want to go back to the best way’. Is this your best way? What is this interview? If you thought that Sanju Samson is the best, then you should have continued with him. Why bring Vaibhav and drop him? Why are you ruining his future? You all are ruining his confidence. When Sachin Tendulkar went to 16 and he told him that he ‘went to 16,’ Ibutyot told him that ‘ he got off the tour. You play fearlessly’.“Srikkanth said that the current management should have shown the same faith in Sooryavanshi instead of dropping him after only three games.“Shouldn’t Gambhir and Shreyas have given Sooryavanshi that much confidence? It’s not fair. I’m very disappointed with the way they are treating Vaibhav Sooryavanshi,” he said.
