{"id":3551,"date":"2026-03-25T04:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/2026\/03\/25\/casting-a-wider-net-ipls-power-shift-fuels-deeper-talent-pool-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T04:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:35:13","slug":"casting-a-wider-net-ipls-power-shift-fuels-deeper-talent-pool-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/?p=3551","title":{"rendered":"Casting a wider net: IPL’s power shift fuels deeper talent pool | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Looking to impress: Delhi Capitals\u2019 Prithvi Shaw trains in Delhi on Tuesday (Image credit: Delhi Capitals\/IPL) <\/span><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It\u2019s unfortunate that Shreyas Iyer<\/a> misses out. It\u2019s no fault of his, nor ours. He has to wait for his chance.\u201d This was India\u2019s chief selector Ajit Agarkar while announcing the T20I squad for the Asia Cup last Aug. Iyer was still fresh from an IPL<\/a> season where he scored 604 runs at a strike-rate of 174 while leading Punjab Kings to the final.Barring Arshdeep Singh, no player from either of last edition\u2019s finalists could find a place in India\u2019s triumphant T20 World Cup team last month. The IPL is in a very interesting phase now. It has thrown up a surfeit of players that have turned India into a T20 superpower, but the earlier phase of only a few big teams dominating the league may be over.<\/p>\n

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Chennai Super Kings<\/a> and Mumbai Indians \u2014 the two most successful franchises \u2014 are struggling to maintain consistency as the years roll by. In fact, the trend mirrors India\u2019s domestic cricket scene. The power centre doesn\u2019t necessarily end with Mumbai, Karnataka, Delhi or Tamil Nadu any more.The \u2018lesser\u2019 state teams have found a way to make their presence felt, starting with Rajasthan, Vidarbha, Saurashtra and Gujarat. Jammu and Kashmir and Jharkhand too have risen above the rest. In the IPL, CSK and MI\u2019s success became templates for other franchises. Talent could be plucked from the remotest part through some extensive scouting programmes run by the franchises.India\u2019s national selectors \u2014 a committee of just five former cricketers \u2014 could in turn tap the scouts of IPL teams.Over the next two months, Agarkar\u2019s committee will closely follow the players that perform well in the IPL. Punjab Kings didn\u2019t have anybody other than Arshdeep in the World Cup team, but a close look at the makeup of the India \u2018A\u2019 team over the last year tells the real story. The likes of Priyansh Arya, Prabhsimran Singh, Ayush Badoni, Riyan Parag, Yudhvir Singh and Vipraj Nigam are now well-established names. National selectors have often been accused of getting carried away by IPL performances, but former national selector claim the league is a perfect tool to gauge the temperament of younger players.TOI understands the selectors have already prepared their objectives for this IPL.One part deals with recognising fresh talent and tracking how standout talents from last season are working towards achieving consistency. The other part involves keeping an eye on monitoring the core of the ODI team ahead of next year\u2019s World Cup. For example, the selectors will keep a close eye on the development of pacer Mayank Yadav and Abdul Samad from LSG. But they will also see how Rishabh Pant is placed. Pant has been a part of the ODI team for the last two years but got just one game.Hardik Pandya\u2019s bowling fitness will also be monitored. Then there\u2019s Nitish Kumar Reddy, whose development as a seam-bowling allrounder will be watched. The franchises and national selectors co-exist, yet the purpose is independent of each other. The IPL has grown enough that national selectors don\u2019t need to restrict themselves to table toppers to spot new talent.<\/div>\n


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Looking to impress: Delhi Capitals\u2019 Prithvi Shaw trains in Delhi on Tuesday (Image credit: Delhi Capitals\/IPL) It\u2019s unfortunate that Shreyas Iyer misses out. It\u2019s no fault of his, nor ours. He has to wait for his chance.\u201d This was India\u2019s chief selector Ajit Agarkar while announcing the T20I squad for the Asia Cup last Aug….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saharanews.in\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}