Do Ranji Trophy performances matter?
Does it mean anything when one of India's Test hopefuls, Rohit Sharma, scores 175 in the Ranji Trophy, when at the same time three others hit double-centuries and an all-rounder not in the reckoning for a Test slot, Ravindra Jadeja, hammers 314, asks
Nikita Bastian
25-Feb-2013
Does it mean anything when one of India's Test hopefuls, Rohit Sharma, scores 175 in the Ranji Trophy, when at the same time three others hit double-centuries and an all-rounder not in the reckoning for a Test slot, Ravindra Jadeja, hammers 314, asks Kunal Pradhan, in the Mumbai Mirror.
There are several players [from the past] who never got a chance to play for India, but were respected as much as their international counterparts, first as hopefuls, and then as people who provided perspective to another future star’s performance ... Scoring runs against them meant something, and taking their wicket was the yardstick of a young player’s potential. But now that the Ranji Trophy has been first diluted and then completely dissolved in a haze of meaningless runs on flat tracks, Indian cricket has reached a stage where such pointers have ceased to exist.
Nikita Bastian is a sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo