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I don't know. Virat seems to be experimenting a bit too much in the ODI format these days. He backed Pant for a long time even when the crowd felt disappointed with his performances and his injury was the primary reason he got replaced.
He needs to continue improving his captaincy skills since he has a long way to go in order to match someone like MSD(Especially in the ODI format). His long term plan seems to be failing since Thakur is easily one of the worst Indian bowlers I have seen in recent times(Even though he takes wickets regularly).
Experiment looks bad when team lose the game but same experiment clicked perfectly in T-20 Games so for time being i am willing to cut some slack to this approach or Virat. Having said that i don't want to see single experiment and any surprise in the Test Series and i hope Virat & Co goes with their winning combination.
About his captaincy, Usually i am very critical of Virat's captaincy in the shorter format. But IMHO after World Cup failure he's growing quite well in this role. May be because he knows Dhoni is not coming back so he's using his brain or something? not sure but little observation.
What exactly is the non-functioning Head Coach and adopted daamad of Indian cricket doing?
Cheer leading is tough task
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Why would you do experiments when your team is performing so well ?
As told by many experts, you should not change the winning combination. Too much experiment and changes will bring bad affect to the team, and this is what happened with Indian team lately and they had to face a white wash in ODI.
After 2nd ODI he gave statement that ODI are not relevant this year as compared to Test (WTC) and T-20 (WC) so he and management wants to try new players.