Indian Premier League 2017: Opportunity for big players to make comeback in Team India

Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan, Mohammad Shami and Suresh Raina, IPL 2017 would be last chance for them to be picked up for Champions Trophy

As the Indian Premier League 2017 is all set to begin from today, April 5, 2017, all the national selector would like to closely watch the performance of the each and every Indian players so that they can pick up the best player for the upcoming Champions Trophy in England in June.

This season has been proved very good for Team India and they have won each series against the opponent. This season Team India has played test match series with South Africa, New Zealand, England, Bangladesh and Australia and they won every series against all these teams. Winning the test match series again these opponent was also crucial because many of the start players were not part of the Team Indian and still India has won the each series without its start players.

In the absences of big players many new players came into the team and played a very important role to win the series and proofed their selection right and come into the sight of the selectors who are now looking for the players for the upcoming Champions Trophy.


As selector would love to pick up the players who has already made the impact in the previous matches Shikhar Dhawan, Rohit Sharma, Suresh Raina and Mohammad Shami would definitely want to regain their place in the Indian national team.

In the absence of the big players, new players like K L Rahul, Kedar Jadhav and Hardik Pandya has find the place for themselves in the ODI teams and after the win again the England, Indian skipper Virat Kohli had said that it gave him him a chance to to try a few combination ahead of the Champions Trophy. India is a defending champion of champions trophy so they would love to go with their best squad to reclaim the trophy.

Because the new players has already made an impact now these senior players are in under more pressure to perform much better so that they can regain their place in Team India.

Rohit Sharma:

Being  a consistent opener, Rohit Sharma has a very formidable record as a opening batsman so it wont be difficult for him to regain his spot as an opening batsman. Because of the thigh injury has has been out of the action from the past five months but Mumbai Indian's skipper would love to give his best in this IPL to regain his spot in Team India.

Shikhar Dhawan & Suresh Raina:

As compare to Rohit Sharma, Shikhar Dhawan and Suresh Rain have to do more to get back into the nation team. However Shikhar Dhawan was the second highest run scorer in the Duleep trophy with 223 runs in three matches. But his inconsistency is a major road block in front of him. In last edition of IPL 2016 Shikhar Dhawan was also inconsistent with his batting and SRH manage to pulled off the campaign mainly due to the pace bowling attack which they had.

So Dhawan has to work on his consistency otherwise it will be very difficult for him to come back into the Team India because K L Rahul who had scored the 6 fifties in 7 innings of test match series between India vs Australia has already marked his impact as an opener for Team India.

Suresh Raina:

The position of Suresh Raina has been in a doldrums after the BCCI has droped him from the central contact however he had been part of the T20 series against England and played all the matches however the Kedar Jadhav who had scored the brilliant 300 against England in the test match series make his chances more dilute.

Yuvraj Singh and MS Dhoni has already sure to feature in team India as a middle order batsman so the presence of all three batsman (MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh and Kedar Jadhav) has make it more tough for Suresh Raina to break into the team India squad for Champions Trophy.