Team India’s lanky fast bowler Ishant Sharma is currently not part of the Test reckoning owing to stiff competition in the Test team. His last Test match appearance came against the New Zealand cricket team in late November 2021.
Since then, he hasn’t been part of the team’s plans in the longest format of the game. The 34-year-old has played 105 Tests wherein he took 311 wickets to his name including 11 five-wicket hauls and 10 four-wicket hauls.
He has a solitary half-century in Test cricket and has aggregated 785 runs in this format. Notably, he registered his best bowling figures of 7/74 against England at the iconic Lord’s Cricket Ground in London.
Ishant Sharma talks against workload management in Indian cricket
Nicknamed “Lambu” because of his height and lean physique, Ishant Sharma made the headlines after he spoke against the existing workload management in Indian cricket.
Ishant Sharma who is the second Indian paceman to play more than 100 Tests after Zaheer Khan has now opened up his views against the new concept of workload management that took shape in Indian cricket over the last few years.
He emphasized the fact that one doesn’t need to think too much about the workload, adding that it is a new phrase that has come up recently, particularly for the fast bowlers.
Ishant Sharma further backed his statement by adding that he has never come across terms like workload management during his stint at international cricket.
He further went on to add saying how he could bowl long spells when he made his Ranji Trophy debut and then later on for Team India. Ishant Sharma said he trained quite differently under an old-fashioned coach.
During the initial years of his cricketing career, Ishant Sharma’s coach would give him a ball in hand at around 1 pm as part of the customary training session, which would go on till the sun sets in the west.
