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Originally Posted by Eshen
Generally, yes, you pick players based on their current forms. However, all the teams around the world give more leniency to a senior player when he is out of form, especially if the team is going abroad where conditions are unfamiliar to junior players.
Also, there are other ways to judge a player's form besides match stats. Riyad has been inconsistent through out his career, but technically he is sound now more than ever.
Soumya on the other hand has been struggling badly last one year or so reading the line-length of a ball, showing lots of hesitations whether to play on front foot or back foot. When you keep making elementary mistakes like that, it becomes easy for the oppositions bowlers to set you up, which has been happening frequently in his case. When a batsman does not have his basics right, generally the right course of action is to give him a break, send him back to domestics to work on his shortcomings.
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Why is it that some players tend to be in good form in domestics but can’t really translate that form in international cricket? Nasir Hossain? Imrul Kayes? In the past we had other solid domestic performers but they couldn’t replicate that form in international cricket?
Soumya on the other hand never really performs in domestic cricket. Isn’t their a way to back a player that is highly talented irrespective of his failures in internationals? Like some talented player who goes through a really bad patch?