(Cricket news) India’s international cricket season has come to an end and now it is time for the IPL season to commence. The IPL season will start on the 31st March while the final will be held on the 28th of May. The big issue for India is that the World Test Championship final is on the 7th of June.

So for the players who have to play the IPL final and the WTC final there will be only 9 days. In those 9 days they will have to switch formats and get used to different conditions which is a tough task. In the best case scenario players will be eliminated from the IPL between 19th and 21st May which isn’t that early either.

Meanwhile key Australian players like Pat Cummins, Mitchell Starc, Nathan Lyon, Alex Carey, Usman Khawaja, Steve Smith, Travis Head and Marnus Labuschagne will be preparing for the final and most of them will be playing County cricket to get used to the conditions. Only David Warner, Cameron Green and Josh Hazelwood will be playing the IPL. Cheteshwar Pujara is the only player in the Indian Test team who will not play the IPL and will play County cricket. Rohit Sharma has already said that the players will be provided with the dukes red ball to practice during the IPL.

The workload management will be very key especially for fast bowlers. Mohammed Shami, Mohammed Siraj, Umesh Yadav, Shardul Thakur are all key bowlers for their respective franchises. The BCCI have to communicate with the franchises so that they do not play these bowlers in all the games. It will be very costly if these bowlers play all the games and come into the Test team all burned out with niggles. If and when teams are knocked out of the competition it is best for the Test players in their team to be released in order to rest and prepare for the Test series.

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