semifinals the karthik experimentation was done away with and the team management sought the lefthanded option in pantif karthik was specifically prepared for the last four months for this tournament why did the team citing tactical change switch to pant his confidence in this whole merrygoround took a serious beatingthis was done only to accommodate rahul at the topyuzvendra chahal ani photo3 not using yuzvendra chahalyuzvendra chahal is indias top wickettaker in t20is but funnily enough hasnt played a single t20 world cup game as he was dropped in one edition and warmed the bench this timesomeone who can turn his legbreaks and bowl a good googly chahal wasnt played against the english batting lineup against whom he had good match upsinstead they preferred axar patel who was disappointinghis wickettowicket bowling on true surfaces with even bounce was cannon fodder for batters whether it was iftikhar ahmed or alex hales he was being hit out of the park for fun he played five games and couldnt complete his quota in most of them going at an economy of 862 runs per overthe logic that he is a battingorder floater also didnt work as he seldom got a decent hit that raises the question why would chahal need a cushion of a lower batter say harshal patel in order to protect him if the top five specialist batters arent able to stack up the numbers how could a bowler do that jobadil rashids dominance was a case in pointrahul dravid ians photo4 dravids decision makingdravid has firmly entrenched himself in the position of the head coach in the last one year but the time has come for him to dismantle the current template and set a new onebatters such as shubman gill prithvi shaw rahul tripathi rajat patidar have shown immense promise and need to be groomed with two years in hand for the next t20 world cupsimilarly dumping avesh khan for a few bad end overs in the asia cup seemed a bit contradictory rahul got umpteen games to succeed and all it took to reject avesh was a couple of bad outingstwo bad asia cup matches and it was decided that harshal patel needed to be roped in post injury and such was his plight that he wasnt considered for any of the games after replacing aveshdravid needs to make tough calls but in one year he hasnt rocked the boat will he do that in the future watch out for this space